Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIFFERENCE is not merely administrative; economically and culturally, Central Square plays Mexico to Harvard Square's United States. The major industry is subway construction, and those who do not labor in the bowels of the earth must chase the total dollars brought in by slumming Harvard Square Yuppies. All this is supervised by the overlords at the Central Square Police Station, an imposing fortress surrounded by an army of black and white cruisers which are used, should the occasion arise, to fill up any empty parking spaces...
...bulls of Wall Street seem to be betting that the Federal Reserve Board will not allow interest rates to rise sharply. Such a policy would endanger a vulnerable economy, which grew only 2.5% in 1986. Last week's employment report from the Labor Department offered evidence that the economy is still in the doldrums. Though the overall unemployment rate fell slightly, from 6.7% to 6.6%, the number of jobs actually declined in the important manufacturing and construction sectors...
Still, seven-figure advances can cause frissons in the worlds of publishing and journalism, where the hired hands ordinarily labor for far less. Destiny will be talked about, doubtless picked up by a few people new to the current state of the romance genre and hence ignorant of just how wretched such fiction is required to be. There will be cries of disbelief; Sally Beauman may want her pseudonym back...
...plan is already meeting strong resistance from the Administration, many Republican legislators and business lobbyists. Opponents contend that the Kennedy-Hawkins measure would reduce the number of low-wage jobs available, especially part-time work for teenagers. Says Labor Secretary William Brock: "We need to concentrate on how to get our kids into the work force rather than on a new way to keep them...
...Polite and businesslike" was the way White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater described last week's meeting between British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock and President Ronald Reagan. "Cool tending toward frosty" might have been more apt. The President criticized Labor's call for British nuclear disarmament, saying it not only hurt NATO but "undercut our negotiating position at Geneva...