Word: laboral
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...rafts and side-winding in the desert high noon, will be migrants, refugees, and undocumented workers who can only pass those same borders restrictively, slowly, and with much effort. In a world where output has increased over the past twenty years primarily due to a fivefold expansion of the labor supply, according to International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook 2007, increased labor mobility—rather, increased human mobility—is still anathema to both the political left and right in developed countries. Even though a dramatic increase in immigration would probably alleviate world poverty...
...will be very difficult for Royal supporters to obtain any Floridian-style recounts - much less win an entirely new vote. That means Aubry, a former Labor and Social Affairs minister and architect of France's now-defunct 35 hour work-week, becomes the first female leader in PS history. Her objective in that post: constructing a Socialist platform rooted in more traditionally leftist policies to win back voters who flocked to Green and Communist parties after years of the PS's centrist drift. She then hopes to build a coalition of all leftist parties to finally mount a challenge...
...kinesthetically-oriented sense of direction, and even some linguistic attributes that were commonly held to be universal. These include quantifiers (e.g. all, every) and recursion (the placement of one phrase or sentence within another).Everett harps on what the Pirahã lack in comparison to Western culture. This labor, however, pays off in that it allows the casual reader to gain a basic understanding of the gravity of his assertions and of some fairly complex linguistic concepts to boot. Everett provides basic explanations of theories in the field such as the theory of universal grammar (which asserts that there...
...operators. It would seek solutions to global warming rather than deny that it exists. It would place a higher priority on making health care affordable than on slashing pork programs. It would promote the assimilation of Hispanics rather than regard them as a menace or a source of cheap labor...
...United Auto Workers head Ron Gettelfinger - who also appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday but has so far escaped much of Congress's wrath despite his union's crippling labor deals - used a press conference on Thursday to bash what he said was the hypocrisy of certain Detroit opponents in Congress. Many of the same Senators and Representatives who vehemently object to giving any aid to carmakers, he claimed, come from states that have shelled out big bucks as incentive to lure foreign automakers to set up plants. "It just seems odd to us that we can offer incentives...