Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SALVADOR. El Salvador--In the wake of the assasination of the president of the El Savador Human Rights Commission, leftist guerrillas announced yesterday that they would call for a travel ban and labor groups also announced their intention to protest the death...
...DISCUSSION in my Tuesday night section on the Civil War and Reconstruction figured to center on that week's reading, Eric Foner's analysis of the Republican Party, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. But the discussion quickly turned from Foner to Clifford Geertz, a cultural anthropologist that none of the dozen or so history concentrators assembled in a Mather classroom had ever heard...
...many other companies, however, telecommuting seems to please both labor and management. Mountain Bell claims that its telecommuters are 35% to 40% more productive than in-office counterparts. Says William Benham, chairman of the company's telecommuting division: "Employees who work at home develop independent work habits. They learn to set goals." He predicts that by 1995 one-third of the 69,000-member work force at Mountain Bell's parent company, U S West, will be telecommuting...
...things were hazy, like who was hired and who was fired, and what the ripple or tidal effect will be for the rest of this season and years to come. The Hall of Fame offensive lineman Gene Upshaw, who may not be offensive enough for a labor leader, denied the Players Association was mortally wounded. "They definitely took a hunk of flesh out of us," he said, "but we're not busted. We're still here." Announcing that the union had filed an antitrust suit against the owners' "blatant display of monopoly powers," Upshaw said, "We've tried bargaining...
...critics accused him of embracing too narrow views on constitutional protections for civil rights and individual liberties, calling him anti-civil rights, anti-labor, anti-consumer and an opponent of equal rights for women...