Word: laboral
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...effect, labor and credit costs, along with the costs of the parts needed to keep Detroit running, will rob the U.S. car companies of any chance at all that they can take advantages of a better market when it returns. The auto firms are in the process of completely undermining their future, and may end up destroying themselves in order to remain in business...
...aisles, waiting their turn to discuss the controversial measure. Some residents attended the meeting as representatives of local unions and said that they hoped the rezoning measure would provide construction jobs that are otherwise lacking in a slow economy. “This is not only good for labor. It’s good for the City of Cambridge and it will provide much needed tax revenue,” said Joseph Power, the business representative for the Carpenters Local Union. Other residents were skeptical that the measure would bring an employment uptick. “If you?...
...Lieberman's surge in the polls to edge the once-dominant Labor Party out of third place reveals a deep insecurity on the part of many Israelis, who feel surrounded by implacable enemies in the form of Hamas in Gaza and Hizballah in Lebanon, both backed by a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. This fear was accentuated by Israel's 22-day offensive in Gaza, which inflicted widespread casualties among Palestinian civilians but failed to defeat Hamas or even stop the group from firing rockets into southern Israel. Nor did the assault manage to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad...
...many concessions to Palestinians. In the 2003 elections, the party took seven seats, with backing mainly in Israel's large Russian-speaking immigrant community. By the 2006 elections, he had broadened its base, winning 11 seats. Now, according to polls, he could gather up to 20 seats, bumping Labor, one of Israel's classic founding parties, into fourth place. Netanyahu's Likud Party is expected to win 25 to 27 seats, and Livni's centrist Kadima 23 to 25 seats. Lieberman is the subject of a long-running police probe for corruption (he rejects any implication of wrongdoing), but that...
...Rather than a comeback for moderation, the fact that Livni finished ahead of the poll-favorite Netanyahu was a function of the electorate's drift to the right: She picked up most of her support at the expense of the Labor Party, the late Yitzhak Rabin's erstwhile "party of peace" that had once ruled unchallenged, but which on Tuesday could only manage a distant fourth place with only 12 Knesset seats, according to the exit polls. And while Livni's strength was a function of Labor voters moving to the right to back Kadima, Netanyahu lost support...