Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 50,000 Gazans and 50,000 West Bank Arabs travel daily to jobs in Israel, where wages are higher but still no more than half what Israeli workers earn. Arabs from the territories dominate the unskilled-labor market, especially in the construction industry. Arabs collect Israel's garbage and clean its streets, wait on tables in its finest restaurants and keep its factories and mills running. For Israel, holding on to the territories makes sense economically. Jerusalem contributed $240 million in aid and investment to Gaza and the West Bank in 1987 and took back $393 million in taxes...
Israeli political leaders are beginning to learn a different lesson, best expressed by Minister of Economics Gad Yaacobi, a Labor Party member: "The true sources of the recent events are the pent-up fury and hatred of 20 years of occupation, the swelling frustration over diplomatic stagnation, and the sense of impotence and hopelessness stemming from this." Added Ezer Weizman, a former Defense Minister and Likud bloc member who recently defected to Labor: "If we do not advance now toward a political solution the situation will only deteriorate rapidly...
...skilled workers. Upon hearing the news, for example, the entire medical staff at a Riyadh hospital threatened to resign. Within 48 hours, Fahd had rescinded the decree. Although the door was left open for a future income tax, the Saudis seem to prefer losing the money rather than the labor...
...Yale were to accept the unions' proposal, the university's labor expenditures would increase by 91 percent over the next three years, Wellington said...
Skyrocketing technology and labor costs have strained many newspapers past the breaking point. Also, national newspaper chains have bought up financially troubled papers, further restricting diversity in the news...