Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pont lost, his aides were distraught and defiant. Not the Governor. "He was very, very quiet," recalls Nathan Hayward III, a second cousin who was then head of Delaware's economic development office. Du Pont shifted to a more conciliatory approach that eventually won over the legislature and even labor...
...settlement leaves the decision to rehire the 45,000 fired miners to individual companies. Under the law, employers can fire all miners who are not working; although the walkout was legal, the strikers were deemed to be breaking their contract by withholding their labor. After similar dismissals in the past, most workers have been taken back...
...articles: details of new emigration rules and recent actions by the KGB -- subjects barely covered by the official press. Whether the Vechernaya Moskva article was intended as an official warning is unknown. What is certain is that only two years ago Grigoryants would have been bundled off to a labor camp. Instead, like the editors of the country's 8,500 approved newspapers and 1,500 magazines, he remains at liberty to test the boundaries of press freedom, Soviet style...
...Though Aquino finally declared a partial rollback of the hike, thousands of Filipinos walked off their jobs and out of their classrooms in the largest show of protest since Aquino assumed the presidency. After the strike went into a second day, the military cracked down, arresting more than 120 labor activists. Several union leaders have been charged with sedition. Others have gone into hiding...
After putting in a standard 40-hour week, a growing number of workers in -- let's say, Country X -- labor at second and even third jobs. Those who cannot find regular full-time employment take whatever part-time or temporary jobs they can get. Minor illnesses or family troubles are not allowed to interfere with work; absenteeism has dropped to the lowest levels since the early 1970s. Employees regularly say they would prefer still longer hours and higher incomes to more leisure and less pay. This is not just idle talk; money-losing companies sometimes persuade their workers to sacrifice...