Word: labored
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DESCRIPTION: Three charts on moving truck: Weekly closings for Dow Jones Industrials, from January 3, 1986 to May 15, 1987; Economic growth, percent changes in real GNP at annual rates from 1986 to 1st quarter of 1987; and percent of civilian labor force unemployment for the same period. Three additional charts shown as potholes are labeled U.S. DOLLAR as indexed against ten currencies from January 1986 to May 1-15, 1987; INTEREST RATES, percent per year on 30-year Treasury bonds from July 1986 to May 1-15, 1987; and INFLATION, percent change in CPI at annual rates from...
...ways to strengthen the moral standards of their students. In the coming years, we are likely to witness more courses on ethics and more attention paid to developing standards of honesty, decency, and respect for others on our campuses. That is all to the good. But as we labor at these reforms, we should keep one thing in mind. No set of courses, however brilliantly taught, no code of conduct, however wisely conceived, will ever succeed in strengthening the character of our students unless they are buttressed by the force of personal example. If you would know virtue, Plato tells...
...Still, Labor and the Alliance are giving away nothing. Labor intends to . attack the government's record on unemployment -- which has doubled since Thatcher took office in 1979 -- and propose increased public spending. It also plans to portray the Tories as insensitive and uncaring in health, education and housing policies. The Alliance strategy is to present the centrist alternative: more liberal than the Tories on social issues but more conservative than Labor on foreign and defense policy. Recent by-election victories have shown increasing receptivity to the Alliance as an alternative to the two main parties. For their part...
Bookies are already listing the Tories as 2-to-13 favorites, with Labor at 4 to 1 and the Alliance a 25-to-1 long shot. Still, few expect the kind of electoral landslide that gave the Conservatives 397 seats in the House of Commons four years ago. Most analysts predict that the Thatcherites will be lucky to emerge with half the 144-seat majority they won then. Even so, Tebbit, the feisty party chairman, predicts the election will be a "walk" for the Tories. That may be overly optimistic, but try telling Thatcher. "I am still bursting with energy...
...last week's news from the Labor Department is any indication, the longest economic expansion in peacetime history still has plenty of life left in it. The unemployment rate dropped in April from 6.6% to 6.3%, its lowest level since early 1980. Even with 7.5 million Americans still jobless, the economy is "much stronger than anyone thinks," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of Shearson Lehman Bros...