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Dean urged the Democratic Party to begin campaigning seriously in the Deep South and in other Western states now, even if the party’s labor might not bear fruit in the immediate future...
...helped them [by providing] analysis on what’s been going on in the labor market and what the potential for job growth with better fiscal and economic policies is,” Katz said this week...
...will crash during the day, others will blossom and some will need more time. And one may become the splash, the main page-one news story, which is at the heart of each day's urgency. Conversation rattles around the table. Someone's heard unfavorable comments from sources about Labor's standing among local Israelis. Has party leader Mark Latham alienated the influential Jewish community? Whittaker's asked to get a journalist to check it out. What about a response to the federal government's suggestion that it might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike...
...needs more independent confirmation. But the paper is taking shape, and at the next conference, at 6.30 p.m., a list of the news section's contents is sketched out. The trade story is still developing, and Mitchell weighs in with his contacts, putting in a few calls to Labor Party people. But today, even a message from this media heavyweight won't open doors in Canberra. "All the pricks rang back this morning. I think that's a concerted 'no comment,' " he says with a grin the next...
...American and Asian rivals. According to Paul Swaim, an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (o.e.c.d.) in Paris, since 1970 average working hours have declined 23% in France and 17% in Germany, while rising 20% in the United States and Canada. According to a recent o.e.c.d. labor market study, workers in France averaged 1,453 hours per year while German workers averaged 1,446. But workers in Britain averaged 1,673 hours per year and U.S. workers averaged 1,792 hours. As supporters of the 35-hour week are quick to point out, there's nothing intrinsically...