Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City campaigns traditionally perk up after Labor Day, as the sidewalks cool and the voters start spending their weekends at home. The past week saw the start of a political crescendo leading towards the November 3 municipal election. Candidates are pounding doors and pavements, swigging coffee in living rooms, and turning out at gatherings like Saturday's festival of Saints Cosimo and Damiano in East Cambridge...
...fact, officials were so certain that there were no illegal aliens working at Harvard that they sought an exemption from the law. Lobbyists from the University and other schools argued this summer in Washington that educational institutions do not thrive on cheap labor so they are not likely to exploit illegal immigrants...
Peres, leader of Israel's Labor Party, is now serving as foreign minister in Israel's governing coalition. He is in the United States to attend the opening ceremonies of the United Nations General Assembly later this month...
Under the National Unity agreement reached in 1984, the Israeli Cabinet is divided principally between the liberal Labor Party and its allies and the right-wing Likud bloc. Peres served as prime minister with Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir as his foreign minister through September 1986 when, under the terms of the agreement, they switched roles...
...heat of competition, New York and New Jersey haulers slash rates, by hiring non-union labor, and dump trash from all over the nation into the ocean to beat landfill or incineration fees. Simple economics...