Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought it was just a tremendously moving book," Blumenthal adds. "It really is a labor of love...
...program is funded through RCC by the Massachusetts Industrial Service Program and the Department of Employment Security. Benard described the program as part of RCC's efforts to "build partnerships and collaborative relations between business, industry, and labor...
Under a banner that read MOVING AHEAD, party leaders and 1,400 mostly dispirited delegates agreed to a formal reappraisal of Labor's direction, following three straight electoral losses to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. With an eye toward broadening party appeal, Labor promised to reassess even such sacred party tenets as state ownership of industry and unilateral nuclear disarmament, which Deputy Party Leader Roy Hattersley called the "major vote loser" in the past election. Party Leader Neil Kinnock said, "We have got to appeal to the voters we need...
Kinnock denied that Labor would "jettison our commitments" or that the party was "retreating or pandering to yuppies." Instead, he argued that the new tilt was a concession to "social realities." When a worker earns $600 a week, owns his own house, car and a vacation retreat in Spain, the party leader declared, "you do not say, 'Let me take you out of your misery, brother...
...himself head of state and said he would proclaim Fiji a republic on Oct. 10. The colonel's latest change of heart apparently came under pressure from the Taukei Movement, a group of militant Fijians who are demanding that ethnic Indians be excluded from power. Indians dominate Bavadra's Labor Party and slightly outnumber ethnic Fijians among the island chain's 725,000 people...