Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listening In, by contrast, has a very clear feminist outlook. The Newbury Street Theater proclaims that its new show is a "celebration of another joyful but unmarked victory for labor women." The women in question are Boston telephone operators in the year 1919, who in an effort to win recognition of their struggle with the director of the nationalized phone system, shut down the Beantown exchanges. Although the strike spread throughout New England, history has tended to give the event only a brief note in comparison to the more notorious Boston Police Strike of the same year. This original production...
...help Mexico create jobs for its citizens in a number of ways. It could, for example, relax trade restrictions on goods with high labor costs. It could also give direct financial support to Mexican-run programs like PIDER, which has been phenomenally successful in creating jobs and improving living conditions in the poorest rural areas, which are the main source of illegal immigrants...
...unions' disruptive winter offensive has dissipated the firm lead his party had run up over the Conservative opposition by the end of last year. A poll released last week by London's well-regarded Market and Opinion Research Institute showed that the Tories had leaped ahead of Labor by an impressive 55% to 36% and that for the first time ever Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher had surpassed Callaghan in personal popularity...
...hopes that his concordat will buy enough time to allow the current union fever to subside before he has to face another election, which must be held by Nov. 20. But the opposition has no intention of letting Callaghan set his own political timetable. Some important tests of the Labor government's leverage with the unions will come in March, when contracts expire for both the coal miners and power station employees. "Mighty Maggie" Thatcher, who dismisses Callaghan's concordat as "a boneless wonder," might well decide that the timing will be right next month to force...
Hedrick, 68, whose florid face testifies to years spent in the summer sun and winter winds of Wichita, points out that "this certainly isn't the world's fanciest climate, so we must have other advantages." In his view, one echoed by various local business and labor chiefs: "A work ethic still exists in this part of the world. People feel they have to give a day's work for a day's pay." Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other...