Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson quietly acknowledged: "We must come to terms with it." Above all, Wilson showed a determination that reflected support from both parties, from British business and from most of the country* - the kind of national approval that was lacking four years ago, in large part because the Labor Party itself was opposed to the idea. As the London Times observed the next day: "The present situation of Britain has all the inconvenience of the temporary; it is post-imperial and pre-European. No exists." realistic alternative to joining Europe...
...Though in other matters Wilson was not faring so well: last week's Gallup poll showed that only 42% of Britons are satisfied with the Prime Minister at present, the lowest percentage of approval since he became Labor Party leader more than four years...
...serve God without giving up their ordinary work, their family or their normal social relations. My teaching has been that sanctity is not reserved for a privileged few. Every profession, every honest task can be divine." In Spain, the membership of Opus Dei includes movie directors, jet pilots, labor leaders, high-fashion hairdressers and, as Escrivá proudly points out, even a barber in Seville...
...first thing a regent learns, says former Minnesota Regent Robert Hess, an ex-labor-union official, is that a university "sure as hell isn't run like a corporation-university people simply aren't yes men." Another difference, notes Wisconsin Regent Kenneth Greenquist, is that "there is no balance sheet with a university-you could make a mistake and not know it for a generation." California Regent Edward Carter contends that what a regent really needs is a diversified "experience of life and the breadth of vision that comes from it, since by the time problems...
...Investors. The basic idea is to lure both foreign and domestic capital investment. To outsiders, Taiwan's biggest advantage is inexpensive labor. Minimum-wage laws require only $11 a month for unskilled labor, while skilled workers get up to $70 or $80. The rates are only one-third as high as wage levels in Japan and half those in Hong Kong. As a result, several Asian companies have moved operations from those areas to Taiwan. U.S. firms have invested $110 million in Taiwan enterprises. Union Carbide is building an $8,300,000 plastics plant in the Kaohsiung petrochemical complex...