Word: laboral
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...rapid growth has also placed unprecedented strains on Macau's society, in the form of soaring property prices, labor unrest, overburdened infrastructure and discontent among residents like Ng who feel their lives have been made worse, not better, by Macau's renaissance. Foreigners have flooded in with the boom and are competing with natives for plum jobs. Transportation systems have been taxed to breaking point by the 27 million tourists who visited last year. Calls for change have forced the government to scramble to appease a disgruntled public. "The gaming industry has been infiltrating into the community and creating...
...President Abbas's movement enjoying the de facto protection of the Israelis. And Olmert's rivals also smell blood. Tzipi Livni, his Foreign Minister and rival within the Kadima Party, called once again on Tuesday for the Prime Minister to resign, and Defense Secretary Ehud Barak, leader of the Labor Party, may join the pressure for Olmert to take the honorable way out. Regardless of his preferences, Olmert may have to resign anyway if he is indicted on corruption charges alleging that he accepted cash from a U.S. businessman and doubled-charged travel expenses to Israeli charities that had sponsored...
...Obama's trip seemed to be a metaphorical stroll from Britain's past to its future. He had breakfast at his hotel with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, now a Middle East envoy for the international community. It was followed by a meeting with the embattled current one, the Labor Party's Gordon Brown. Obama then proceeded to one at the parliament building with the youthful and charismatic David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party opposition. Also at 10 Downing Street while Obama was there: David Lammy, one of two black ministers in Brown's government, who has tried...
...killings a year. Entire families become targets for retaliation, leaving parents scared to send children to school and farmers afraid to till their crops. Revenge killing is "a main obstacle for investment, for development and for democracy," says Noor Mohamed Baabad, Yemen's Deputy Minister of Social Affairs and Labor...
...some cases making three-day weekends routine and further extending France's five weeks of paid vacation. Not surprisingly, several hundred cadres were the only ones protesting as legislators voted to reform their cushy work arrangement into obscurity. In that way, the new law already produced one small labor miracle: it made private sector executives sputter with a rage normally seen only among militant public sector strikers...