Word: labored
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...Great Plains has become a dust bowl, and people are moving north into Canada's uplands to seek work. Even in Alaska, changing ocean currents are boosting the fish catch. New York is sweltering in 95 degrees weather that began in June and will continue through Labor Day. In the Southeast the hot spell started six weeks earlier...
Perestroika will be whatever we will be. If we are halfway, we'll have semi- perestroika. If we rebuild with rotting lumber from former labor camps, perestroika will collapse. If we all pull the blankets toward ourselves, perestroika will freeze. What is done in the name of protecting one's cushy armchair isn't ideology, it's cushiology. Between the pro-perestroikers and the anti-perestroikers, unfortunately, there is a large group I call the "oikers." They're the ones who whine constantly about the lack of sugar and other things but do not lift a finger to stop those...
...scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age. Some 19 million people, most of them women, currently work at VDTs in the U.S., a number that will more than double by the mid-1990s...
Such reasoning does not impress union leaders. "More time and money have been spent denying there's a problem than dealing with it," says Deborah Meyer, associate director for 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. Labor and management in California agree on most of the remedies, according to Laura Stock of the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley. "The argument," she says, "seems to be about who has ultimate control of the workplace...
British authorities subsequently clamped down at home by banning alcohol sales in stadiums and installing closed-circuit TV monitors and metal detectors. No use: the rowdy element among the fans -- mostly young men who labor in manual trades -- kept up its nasty ways in incidents around England...