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Bracero: Mexican citizen brought into the U.S. temporarily and usually in groups to add to the existing labor force at times of peak activity. The program, begun during World War II to relieve manpower shortages, was ended-over farmers' protests-in 1964. However, individuals known as "green-carders" (for the permits they hold) can work as aliens...
...Causa: literally, "the cause." Cesar Chavez's farm-labor movement; also, more broadly, the advancement of Mexican Americans...
Fortunately, in everything except babies, early Shaker craftsmen were astonishingly productive. They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices. Even now, their spare yet elegant furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done...
First, the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in May. That was only half as much as April's advance; and it was the second month in a row that the rate of increase has declined. Next the Commerce Department disclosed that its index of twelve leading indicators of the economy dropped fractionally in May, a sign that overall demand and production may level off in the months ahead and eventually lead to price stability...
...headquarters to Phoenix, where executive talent is more plentiful, but its main manufacturing plants will stay in Elkhart. That city of 40,000 is the capital of the mobile industry, largely because so many of its residents are hard-working Amish carpenters who shun such secular organizations as labor unions...