Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Group. Reviewing the judge's appeals-court votes in 56 split decisions, the Litigation Group said that Bork consistently found for the Government when it was sued by public-interest groups, consumers or workers. But in eight decisions in which business interests challenged the Executive Branch on regulatory or labor issues, Bork sided with business every time. Amid the furor over his nomination, Bork has been quietly lobbying for himself on Capitol Hill. He has met privately with nearly all the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, assuring the lawmakers that he would bring no prejudices to the court...
...government and the opposition have expressed sympathy for the workers' plight. "It is true that the government has sided with management in the past out of the need for growth and stability," said Roh Tae Woo, who heads the ruling Democratic Justice Party, "but it must now side with labor to compensate for sacrifices made for the nation's economic development...
Independent labor organizers took advantage of the new atmosphere to spark a series of work stoppages that reached new peaks last week. Assembly lines ground to a halt at the electronics giants, Samsung and Lucky-Goldstar. Earlier, Hyundai Motor Co., producer of the popular subcompact Excel, lost $24 million after it failed to ship 6,000 cars. Though the government is leaving the search for solutions to labor and management, it began to move against the violence prone, arresting two workers for destroying an auto-parts factory and three fishermen for wrecking equipment in a Pusan market. Warned Labor Minister...
...growth of inner-city illegitimacy. A recent study by the Children's Defense Fund found that 90% of all babies of black teenage mothers are born out of wedlock. As Harriette McAdoo, professor of social work at Howard University, puts it, "Men are unable to maintain themselves in the labor market, and they are unable to maintain their families...
...marriage banns also led to a divorce. S.D.P. Leader David Owen, who had helped found the party as a breakaway movement from Labor, had opposed the merger, citing basic differences on defense policy. Last week he made good on a threat to resign. Steel called that "logical," while decrying Owen's opposition as "profoundly mistaken...