Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Gazans must earn their meager daily bread in Israel. Some 50,000 jam the 44-mile route to Tel Aviv each dawn to sweep streets and haul garbage and build houses. By supplying Israel with cheap labor, Gaza has virtually eliminated unemployment. Even so, Palestinians deeply resent the forced dependence. "We are enslaved," says Rashad Shawwa, 79, mayor of Gaza, who was twice removed from office by Israeli officials. "We have become the servants of Israel...
...cutbacks at Eastern Airlines. There is no future for Eastern unless it restructures its labor costs. Eastern has laid out a game plan that makes obvious sense, not one that will win a popularity contest among unionized employees. But it happens to work. When you're losing the kind of money Eastern is, you don't grow. You pull back...
...coming labor negotiations at Eastern. We have to go through the negotiations to save this company. We'd love nothing more than to invite union leaders in, exchange Sheaffer pens, sign contracts and have a nice deal. The world just doesn't allow that. I haven't found anybody else who writes the paychecks at Eastern. That's something people forget. There aren't a lot of jobs going looking for homes in South Florida...
...counter that perception, Aquino has visited N.P.A. war zones, raised military pay to quiet the restive soldiers, delivered tough-sounding speeches and demanded that radical labor unions end their strikes and obey back-to-work court orders. Aquino can claim some credit for this year's expected 5% rate of economic growth, an impressive figure after three years of negative and near zero expansion. Yet the resurgent economy has only begun to replenish the depleted treasury. Aquino's attempts to run an efficient government and an effective war against the N.P.A. are hampered by a lack of funds. An expected...
Washington at some point has been all of the evils he describes. But Washington is something more: it is history stretching back two centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...