Word: laboral
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...Apatow movie like The 40 Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up would labor under another handicap: it's designed to make people laugh. The top Oscar has gone to a handful of comedies (including It Happened One Night and Annie Hall), but generally the Academy prefers to be edified. The year of Citizen Kane, 1941, was also the year of Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, today regarded as one of the great American comedies, with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda brilliant as a cardsharp predator and her millionaire prey. None of them got even a nomination for this supreme farce...
...that more food brings more mouths, and warned that the potato would depress wages and living standards by pushing Europe's population far beyond the opportunities of employment. What Malthus didn't know was that Europe was already in the throes of a development that would quickly swallow any labor surplus: the Industrial Revolution...
...been reauthorized since 1998, a delay that Massachusetts Congressman John F. Tierney—a major proponent of the bill through his work on the Education and Labor Committee—attributed to partisan politics...
...Calderón called illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. a “textbook example” of a country with surplus capital needing a country with surplus labor. He expressed his support for more integrated North American markets, saying that “closing the border is a very, very big mistake...
...students across the country continue to cope with rising textbook prices, Congress has stepped in to provide some much needed relief. Under a bill proposed by the House Education and Labor Committee, publishers would be required to sell unbundled versions of textbooks that are not packaged with DVDs, CDs, or workbooks. Colleges would also have to provide students with advance information on textbook prices, which would give students the opportunity to plan for their expenses for the upcoming semester. “Textbook prices have far outpaced inflation over the past decade, now costing the average student close...