Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most glaring flaw in your story is the reference to former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan's trial as evidence of moral decay in high places. The result of the Donovan trial, wherein he was acquitted, only underscores your total lack of sensitivity. You treated him as if he were guilty while the jury was deliberating on that very issue...
When Pope John Paul II last visited his native Poland, in 1983, he made only veiled references to Solidarity, the outlawed independent labor movement. The martial law that had abruptly ended Poland's democratic experiment was still in effect, and he was not even permitted to visit Gdansk, the Baltic shipbuilding city that gave birth to Solidarity. But last week, on his third visit as Pope to his homeland, John Paul more than made up for lost time. Speaking in Gdansk from a giant outdoor altar built in the stylized form of a wooden sailing vessel, the Pontiff not only...
...because they are afraid of deportation under the new law. Last week more than one-third of Oregon's $30 million strawberry crop was rotting because only about half the state's usual contingent of 20,000 migrant workers have shown up this spring. Declaring the situation an "unprecedented labor crisis," Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt predicted that the state would lose as much as $300 million of its usual $1 billion annual crop of fruits, vegetables and flowers...
...down from their 1983 high, the Tories capture a 101- seat majority, enough to help the Iron Lady in her campaign to "destroy socialism" in Britain. -- A TIME interview with the Prime Minister. -- On a visit to his native Poland, the Pope invokes the legacy of the outlawed Solidarity labor movement. -- A U. S. plan to give Pakistan AWACS planes flies into trouble...
...United pilots had never forgiven Ferris for a bitter 1985 labor confrontation. The chairman demanded that United employees accept a two-tier wage system that would relegate newly hired pilots to a lower pay scale. In protest the pilots staged a 29-day strike, but Ferris prevailed and set up the new wage system anyway. He insisted that the carrier needed lower costs to meet the challenge of cut-rate competitors like Texas Air, which through a series of mergers has eclipsed Allegis to become the largest U.S. airline company, with both Continental and Eastern now under its wing...