Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expressed his own concern for Sadat's "isolation" and said, "We should like to help President Sadat as much as we can." That offer was more striking in light of Begin's own peace-related problems: a major political row between his Likud coalition government and the Labor opposition and an angry split in his own Cabinet...
...Portillo, too, sought political advantage from Castro's visit. With elections set for July 1, he wants to appeal to leftists and labor union members, who are clamoring for higher wages to offset Mexico's soaring inflation rate. Among the prominent people he invited to welcome Castro were the heads of four leftist political parties, including the Communists...
...personal net worth of $800,000 in 1977), he is uneasy with big corporate executives. He rarely meets with them, and when he does, the mood is often strained. "The President," explains one Cabinet officer, "doesn't like anything big. He is not comfortable with Big Labor, Big Business or the Big Press...
...Hospitals are inherently expensive places. They must maintain elaborately equipped facilities?emergency rooms, for example?24 hours a day, even though those facilities are used only sporadically. They are labor-intensive: the general ratio is 2.64 employees for every hospital bed. Aggressive unions have forced hospitals to raise the once depressed wages of their nonprofessional people (cooks, cleaners, clerks) so sharply that, for example, wages and benefits now take 70% of the budget of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, vs. 35% only 20 years ago. The introduction of expensive machinery raises rather than lowers labor costs. For example...
...Electronic fetal monitoring is used in many hospital maternity units during labor and delivery. A sonar-like ultrasound system keeps track of the baby's heart rate, and an electrically wired belt across the mother's abdomen notes uterine contractions. Electrodes are attached to the baby's head to get an electrocardiogram. Blood samples for analysis may be drawn from the baby's scalp. The object: to detect fetal problems early enough for physicians to intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate...