Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of the missing hands has stirred up political turmoil in Argentina. More than 50,000 members of the populist dictator's Peronist Party and its trade union ally, the General Confederation of Labor, attended a Mass of mourning last week. Distraught Peronistas cried in one another's arms. Some held up posters that read YOUR HANDS ARE THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE. The government of President Raul Alfonsin, which only two months ago survived a military uprising, blamed "rightist" elements bent on destabilizing the country's young democracy for the theft...
What employees have often got in return for lower wages is increased job security. That was underlined last week, when the Labor Department announced that U.S. unemployment had fallen to 6.1% in June, from 6.3% the previous month...
Anger among labor-union members could flare up during the next few weeks, as the United Auto Workers begin negotiating new contracts for 459,000 workers at Ford and General Motors. If bargaining breaks down this year, the U.A.W. is likely to choose Ford as its primary strike target. Reason: the company, which passed GM last year with earnings of $3.3 billion, is now Detroit's most profitable automaker. Even if those negotiations proceed smoothly, however, there are other signs that labor's restiveness is slowly increasing, despite the decline of U.S. union membership from 20.1 million...
Once it was hailed as the ultimate manufacturing industry, an enterprise that would cut American labor costs, boost productivity and rack up as much as $4 billion in sales by 1990. Blue-chip giants stampeded to buy into the action; bankers panted to finance the heralded expansion. Optimism was seemingly unbounded for the U.S. robotics industry, which produced semi-intelligent machines that were expected to help American businesses compete with low-wage foreign rivals over the next two decades and to improve greatly the quality of American industrial production...
...robotics industry is barely limping along. -- Labor is irked by falling wages. -- The Soviets steal the Paris Air Show...