Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Summers' work covers several fields, including macroeconomics, labor market interests and corporate capital developments, said James M. Poterba '80, associate economics professor at MIT and a colleague of Summers...
...Rosenzweig and Shattuck agree that the important mission of the university in American society is "essential to national well-being." Therefore they say their lobbying efforts are not on the same plane as the more self-interested industry or labor lobbies because they further policies which are in the "public interest...
...government's attempts to look tough were partially undermined by growing labor unrest. The Johannesburg area has been hit by a strike of 20,000 South African Transport Services workers. Nearly 60 railway cars, mostly on commuter trains from the huge black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, were fire bombed last week, and many others were stoned. Several passengers were injured, and one young black was shot and wounded in the leg, reportedly as he tried to hurl a flaming torch into a railway car. The strike, which started a month ago in a minor dispute between the Transport Services...
Rybakov was lucky. In the still more terrible sweeps that took place later on, innocent victims were sentenced to long terms in labor camps or, in many cases, shot. The Siberian exile that the author endured was mild by comparison. After his three-year sentence, Rybakov drifted from village to village, taking jobs as varied as truck driver and ballroom dance instructor. He never stayed at one place more than a few months because his record as an "Article 58er" made him vulnerable to rearrest by authorities and to a prison-camp sentence...
...same umbrella. Old-line party financiers who actively supported Walter Mondale in 1984 find Hart's diffident style difficult to accept. "Hart I can't see," says a prominent Southern fund raiser. "If I don't know who he is, I don't know how he can win." Labor leaders, who remember Hart's blistering attacks on Mondale's ties to special interests, are equally skittish. As Don McKee, a leading Iowa union official, puts it, "The name Hart doesn't come up among our rank and file...