Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the immediate problem of keeping order, no one in Israel's divided leadership seems to envision any long-term solution for the occupied territories. Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud bloc leader who succeeded Labor's Shimon Peres as Prime Minister last year, is much less willing than his predecessor to negotiate a settlement. With no prospect of political talks, the people of Gaza and the West Bank are falling under the sway of Islamic fundamentalism. In Gaza last week the mosques helped fan the unrest among embittered young men no longer afraid of becoming martyrs...
Another threat is a shortage of labor, which could push wages higher. In October the unemployment rate fell to 5.9%, the lowest level this decade. Notes Kathryn Eickhoff, former staff economist of the Office of Management and Budget and now a private consultant: "We are approaching a full-employment economy for both labor and capacity in industry. This is the type of combination that usually leads to price increases...
...neither aesthetics nor safety caused grave problems. The library persuaded Paul Dietrich, the architect who designed the station itself, to design the bookcase at no cost. The library then paid for the materials and labor needed to build the shelves. "The designer knew what he was doing," said Carbona. "He put the shelf in the right location, and it looks beautiful...
...shock. The 2 1/2-hour film, which was first released in Moscow a year ago and opened in the U.S. last week, is a powerful denunciation of the Stalinist-style police state and all its horrors: personality-cult paranoia, official corruption, institutionalized mendacity, arbitrary arrests and executions, dehumanizing labor camps. That Abuladze was ever allowed to make this film is remarkable. That it has been shown to millions of ordinary Soviet citizens, many of whom greeted it with standing ovations, is astounding. And that the Soviets chose to distribute the work abroad is a shrewd advertisement for that heady mixture...
...particularly striking scene depicts the woman's childhood memory of roaming through a lumberyard with her mother in hopes of finding her father's name carved on one of the logs sent there from a labor camp; their search is in vain, but another woman does spot her husband's initials and caresses them tenderly. Another memorable sequence shows the defendant's artist father, dressed only in a white loincloth, hanging by his wrists like the crucified Christ. It is one of several explicit religious images that portray the struggle of good against evil in a way that unfailingly identifies...