Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Housing construction is still vulnerable to any new sign of rising mortgage rates. But there was at least one reason for continued optimism. The Labor Department announced that the Consumer Price Index, a major indicator of inflation and, indirectly, of interest-rate pressures, rose .2% in July, only half the pace of a month earlier...
...longest-running product boycotts in recent memory finally drew to a heady close last week. In Washington, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland crossed off the name of the Colorado-based Coors brewery from a list of sanctioned companies, ending a ten-year labor dispute. Reason for the peace declaration: Coors had agreed not to interfere with union-organizing efforts at its two plants...
...drawn-out beer boycott began in 1977, when the brewery hired nonunion workers to replace 1,500 employees who had walked off their jobs to protest a proposed labor contract. Lately, a new Coors marketing push in the Northeast has been stymied by the campaign. At such lucrative beer-drinking venues as New York City's Shea Stadium and Boston's Fenway Park, vendors had refused to sell the boycotted brew...
...before the California legislature next year, have doctors and hospital administrators around the country up in arms. Changing the hours and responsibilities of residents would not only alter the way doctors are trained, it would also wreak havoc with the staffing of teaching hospitals, which depend on the cheap labor of residents, who typically earn about $24,000 a year...
Aksyonov knew from clouds. His father, a Communist Party official, and his mother, a distinguished historian, spent nearly two decades in labor camps and Siberian exile during the Stalin years. He was raised in provincial Kazan by an aunt, completed medical school in Leningrad and became a popular though officially censured novelist. The Burn, his fictional account of Stalin-era Siberia, was published abroad in 1980. For that offense he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship while traveling in the U.S. and found himself stranded there...