Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been built in the East since World War II. While existing processing centers are often well situated in relation to rail road networks, mail moves increasingly by truck and plane. Automation has swept the industrial world but so far has barely touched the Post Office, where the manual labor of 681,600 employees, now reinforced by 150,000 seasonal workers, still is the prime mover of mail. Opposition from powerful postal unions and from some lethargic officials has slowed innovation...
...defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee; he even faces a challenge to his seating in the next Congress. As if all this were not enough, a House subcommittee last week conducted three days of closed hearings on "alleged irregularities" involving Powell's congressional committee...
...feet long, spans the River Saale, the boundary that divides the southern parts of East and West Germany. To add to the glow, the bridge was the first project of any kind on which the two Germanys have collaborated: the West put up the money, the East supplied the labor...
...national budget on military hardware, most of it bought from Russia. In the process, Boumediene has built Algeria into the third largest military power in Africa, after Egypt and South Africa. He has also built a menacing opposition. Though he has purged his enemies from the Algerian Labor Federation and sacked rivals on the 24-man Revolutionary Council, many pro-Ben Bella men still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such a revolt...
...judgment, handed down by Chief Magistrate Nina I. Isakova, was a compromise. She agreed with the prosecution that Gilmour should pay 1,000 rubles for his freedom, sentenced Wortham to three years in a Soviet labor camp - with the probability of being released after 18 months of good behavior. In Moscow, the U.S. embassy called the sentence "harsh," as perhaps it was by American standards. For Russia, however, it seemed light indeed...