Word: labored
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President Bok and 31 other leaders in higher education, labor and industry are expected to release an unprecedented report next month to presidential candidates of both parties which will set guidelines for debate in the 1988 race...
...study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health indicates that Labor's figures, which rely exclusively on reports from companies, might badly understate the dangers in American factories. Between 1980 and 1984, for example, Labor reported 19,700 occupational fatalities. But by examining death certificates, NIOSH discovered about 27,500 on-the-job fatalities in the same period...
Less disputed is the idea that hazards abound in several occupations. Leading Labor's list of the most dangerous industries is meat-packing, where more than 3 out of 10 employees get hurt or become sick in work-related incidents every year. Also exceeding the national average: companies that make mobile homes (a 27.6% annual injury-and-illness rate in 1985), truck- and auto-body manufacturers (23.4%), building construction firms (15.1%) and farmers...
...computer chip, employees must don gloves, caps, gowns and shoe covers. But these chipmaking facilities, known as "clean labs," seem misnamed when workers relate the litany of health problems they encounter by being exposed to the acids, gases and solvents used in chip manufacture. California's division of labor statistics and research has found a high incidence of disabling illnesses among the state's 64,000 semiconductor workers: 21% had job-related ailments in 1985, vs. 6.7% of the state's 2.1 million manufacturing employees...
...drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message that has attracted such a fervent cadre of crusaders to his Republican presidential campaign. "Whether we're rich, whether we're poor -- whether we're management, whether we're labor -- whether we're black, whether we're white -- whether we're educated, whether we're uneducated -- We -- Are -- All -- Americans...