Word: labored
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...agricultural exports. Trade is an issue for Republicans, but among Democrats it could emerge as the salient issue, the one that helps sort out the crowded field, especially given Iowa's distressed farm economy. The difference is that second-tier candidates are all vying for the support of organized labor, which is unflinching in its protectionist fervor. That is why Gephardt stands to gain from the trade fight in Congress. Labor is unlikely to forget that Hart strongly opposed an earlier version of the Gephardt amendment when he was in the Senate. His detailed proposals on trade, which range from...
...outside world, Botha in that same year grudgingly drew up a list of what he called reforms. Some were of considerable significance, though they consisted mainly of canceling a few of the more obnoxious harassments sanctioned by the 200-odd apartheid laws. The law excluding blacks from official labor unions was rescinded in 1979 (about l million are now members). The law forbidding interracial marriage went in 1985. The hated passbooks, which sharply restricted a black's right to travel and find a new job, were abolished last year. Other, supposed reforms, such as the creation of two separate...
...occasion, Arafat's followers in southern Lebanon launched a series of rocket attacks and a small guerrilla operation against northern Israel. In response, Israeli planes staged strikes against P.L.O. positions in Lebanon. The Israelis were also engaged in a heated debate last week, with Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a Labor Party leader, calling for a territorial compromise over the occupied West Bank and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir repeating the Likud bloc's position that Israel will never make territorial concessions for peace...
...knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens who can prove they have been permanent residents in the U.S. since before Jan. 1, 1982, will be granted temporary resident status. After 18 months they are eligible to become permanent residents -- and eventually U.S. citizens. Because of the need for seasonal labor on farms, the bill offers amnesty to workers who have worked in U.S. agriculture for at least 90 days in each of the past three years. Illegal immigrants have one year in which to apply for legalization...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...