Word: labored
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...Potomac River into an anger zone. Last month bikers were banned from hiking trails in California's Santa Monica mountains. In St. Louis, where a motorist has been known to slosh a bucket of water on a cyclist in cold weather, someone sprinkled tacks on the route of a Labor Day cycle tour and flattened the tires of some 40 bikes. Motorist-biker tensions around St. Louis grew high last month after Bicyclist John S. Reif Jr., 22, a nationally ranked triathlete, was fatally injured in a head-on collision with a car. Speaking of the current mood, Deeds Fletcher...
Biden's troubles began with stories in the New York Times and Des Moines Register three weeks ago pointing out that the Senator's emotional closing statement during an Iowa Democratic debate duplicated a televised speech by Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock during last spring's British election campaign. The Register implied its source was an "attack video" that contained snippets of both speeches spliced together by the campaign camp of one of Biden's Democratic rivals. The Times did not mention it, but two sources say it had a duplicate video in its possession. The tapes...
...Friday conceived of the idea for a consensus from education, labor and industry leaders two years ago during a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) meeting, Friday said...
Although higher education groups have suggested planks in the past, this is the first time in recent memory that college and university leaders--joined by labor and industry representatives--have taken such an active hand in a presidential campaign, said Harvard Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck...
...significant part of Dukakis's support comes from his ability to prove himself in other candidate's home turf, Goldman said. "Biden was predicted to raise the most money, but Dukakis eventually did, Gephardt was supposed to get the majority of labor support, but both [candidates] are closely battling [for the labor vote], and Babitt was expected to get the Hispanic vote in the South, but Dukakis came in, spoke a few words of Spanish, and walked away with a straw poll victory," Goldman said...