Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't spend 16 months of my life in Korea so a bunch of Korean generals could deny human and labor rights to the people of Korea," Dukakis argued...
...performed competently, but far from memorably, at the Bork hearings. But what most voters are more likely to remember was the endless TV sequences of Biden's words on the campaign trail juxtaposed with almost identical oratory coming from the mouth of Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. English teachers in New Hampshire high schools were soon using Biden as the bad example in lessons on the evils of plagiarism...
Directing OSHA's current policies is Assistant Labor Secretary John Pendergrass, 62, a former 3M industrial hygienist. Pendergrass argues that OSHA's emphasis on encouraging companies to upgrade their record keeping has fostered self-regulation and a new spirit of cooperation between Government and business. "Playing policeman wasn't working," Pendergrass says. "We are nonconfrontational. We can't be the safety director at every plant." Since 1980, he asserts, 1.5 million safety hazards have been eradicated in America's 7 million workplaces. Indeed, Labor Department statistics suggest that workplace safety has improved substantially since OSHA was created...
THERE'S talk of "moral victory" from both sides but no real winner at the end of a 20-month labor dispute that pitted the University against its 41 uniformed patrolmen. An agreement reached shortly before classes began gives the patrolmen 5 percent annual increases in pay and benefits for the next 46 months. But the patrolmen still don't have one weekend off in each four, which was their central demand...
...will severely tighten our ability to provide patient care," said Janelle Heineke, director of Womens Health Service at Mt. Auburn Hospital. "This is a labor intensive concern, and a cap is not the way to resolve financial problems," she added...