Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowded hearing room at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an anxious crowd of activists--both pro-and anti-union--gathered this week to watch the duel of lawyers that will decide the fate of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...
...other end of the table, HUCTW was represented by a team of two--Craig Becker, a Washington-based labor lawyer, and Kris Rondeau, who heads the union. A constantly rotating group of around 10 union workers, wearing brightly colored pro-union buttons, sat in the audience each day, passing notes and running errands for Rondeau...
...Temptation of Christ is to strip the biblical epic of its encrusted sanctimony and show biz. He has re- created -- in Morocco, and on a pinchpenny budget of $6.5 million -- a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. It takes hard men to work this holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with...
...Israeli Cabinet meeting last week, two conservative ministers, including Sharon, spoke in favor of annexation, while Labor ministers warned that an expanded Israel would dangerously tilt the balance of the population in favor of the Arabs. No action is expected before the November election of a Prime Minister, which pits hard-liner Shamir against the more moderate Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres, who accepts the concept of a Jordanian- Palestinian delegation at an international peace conference, insisted last week that Hussein's move was "more of a warning than a practical step." One practical consequence, however, may be that Peres...
...this if they're serious about wanting the proceedings to be done swiftly, if they have confidence in their own people's judgement, if they're really concerned about fairness," Rondeau said in an interview yesterday. She added that the union had not yet discussed the idea with any labor experts at Harvard who might serve on the proposed panel