Word: laborative
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...encountered. The floor was littered with medical debris--old bloodstained bandages, syringes, broken vials. The garbage bins had no plastic liners and were spattered with coagulated blood, gobs of spit and other fluids. Sweepers came through every hour with dirty mops and pails of brown disinfectant, but their halfhearted labor was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of patients and visitors. Nobody paid any attention to the NO SMOKING sign, not even the doctors and nurses. Broken windows allowed dust to enter, and swarms of flies buzzed around the patients; we used the X-ray films to swat them away...
Friedman’s rejoinder is that, from an American perspective, one can legitimately perceive outsourcing as exploitation of cheap foreign labor but that the flat world may require trading one person’s unemployment for another’s economic liberation. But, confined so closely to his economic mode of analysis, Friedman has replied to a vastly different trade-off than the one Sandel posited. The critical issue is not merely to whom economic benefit is allocated at whose expense, but also to what extent it should be pursued at all in the face of competing claims...
...Teaching is of course quite labor-intensive but also quite rewarding,” he said. “Trying to formulate one’s ideas clearly for a lecture provides some of the best training for one’s own writing...
...shed its personal computer past by finalizing the $1.25 billion sale of its PC division to China's Lenovo, IBM reaffirmed its transformation into an IT services provider - which also meant shedding 10,000 to 13,000 staff in Europe by the end of June. Lower profits and high labor costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs at the company's panregional headquarters in Tour...
...included U.S.-based investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone as well as several German funds, all of which have bought up and restructured German companies in the past two years. In the past the SPD has tried to court the business vote by partially deregulating the labor market and cutting corporate income tax. Alienating the business community is a risky strategy, but analysts say Müntefering sees this as the surest way to galvanize his party's left wing, unhappy that business has not rewarded Schröder's reforms by creating jobs. But the rhetoric...