Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Australians had a choice last week between a tax cut and a Prime Minister with all the earthy charm of Actor Paul Hogan in the hit film Crocodile Dundee. The good ole boy won. By an estimated 20-seat margin, voters returned Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor Party to power for a record third straight term...
Similar stories abound around the country, illustrating a disturbing trend in the labor market. In the U.S. economy's fifth year of steady expansion, the coexistence of spotty labor shortages and relatively high unemployment rates (6.1% nationally in June) is no longer news. But it is not just those seeking engineers, accountants, computer systems analysts and other highly skilled workers who are having trouble finding help. Employers seeking to fill seasonal and entry-level jobs demanding no experience and little skill -- dishwasher, store clerk, hotel maid, gas-station attendant, farmhand, to name just a few -- are often having just...
...fewer such youths than there used to be. The number of people ages 16 to 24 dropped from 37 million in 1980 to 34 million in 1986. While the economy has grown at a 3% rate since July 1986, the number of young people in the summer labor force has stayed the same: about 26 million. Says Louis Masotti, a political scientist at Northwestern University: "What we have is a burgeoning service economy that has walked right into the face of a declining demography...
Britain's recent election struck many voters there as too much like an + American presidential campaign. Pollsters, Madison Avenue techniques and television played too conspicuous a role. And to what end? Margaret Thatcher won as expected, even though almost everyone agreed that Labor's Neil Kinnock had campaigned more effectively on television (causing Lady Seear, a Liberal politician, to complain, "He may be a nice man, but for a Prime Minister it's not enough to be nice. It's not enough even for a cook!"). British politicians may be learning techniques from us, but it appeared to an American...
...trying to solve a puzzle by finding the pieces and hoping they fit. Rusty, who is the narrator as well as the central character, has been at his job long enough to sound persuasively disillusioned. He describes working conditions in the prosecutor's offices: "In the summer we labor in jungle humidity, with the old window units rattling over the constant clamor of the telephones. In the winter the radiators spit and clank while the hint of darkness never seems to leave the daylight. Justice in the Middle West...