Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't put it any better. The word expresses respect for patience. There ^ is patience and tolerance worthy of respect -- the patience of a woman suffering in labor, the patience of real creators at work, the patience of people under torture who will not name their friends. But there is also useless, humiliating patience. How can we respect ourselves if we allow such disrespect for ourselves every day? Every queue, every shortage shows our society's disrespect for itself...
...African Trade Unions, a 700,000-member black umbrella group, the walkout proved that Pretoria's two- year-old state of emergency -- renewed last week for another year -- had failed to crush opponents of apartheid. The general strike, protesting proposed changes that would toughen South Africa's already restrictive labor laws, defied a February order that banned COSATU and 17 other militant groups from all political action...
...large, police and government officials avoided cracking down on the protest. In Cape Town, Minister of Manpower Pieter du Plessis offered to discuss the proposed labor-law amendments with COSATU. He declared that the controversial bill, which bans sympathy walkouts and, according to COSATU, encourages management to sue unions for losses incurred through unlawful strikes, was not in its final form. The conciliatory statement confirmed that despite two years of repression, black labor unions could still make their voices heard...
...Labor Party has lost three consecutive elections to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, and one big reason is the opposition party's stand on defense issues. Surveys show that Labor's promise to give up Britain's nuclear deterrent unilaterally is unpopular with nearly 70% of Britons, and even gets a thumbs-down from a majority of Labor supporters. Last week Party Leader Neil Kinnock announced a change of heart. British disarmament, he said, should be accompanied by Soviet concessions...
Kinnock attributed his switch to the progress toward nuclear disarmament made by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. "We would be complete fools" to ignore that fact, he said. Conservative Defense Minister George Younger ridiculed Kinnock's new policy as "totally inadequate." Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, a veteran left-winger, charged Kinnock with "backsliding" and moaned that "my worst fears are coming to fruition...