Word: labored
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...nurturing. Curiously, her work was not unlike a substitute soldier's, since it involved a potential risk of life for pay and provided a service to enhance a collective (a family instead of a country) of which she could not feel a part. Purely in terms of fair labor practices, her provision of nearly a year's work for $10,000 raises an issue of equity. But the real issue lies in the nature of the service; and seeing the mess where their bargain has lead, one wonders if Stern or Whitehead even considered consequences that in hindsight seem inevitable...
...early trip to the polls is all the more attractive because of the disarray in the Labor Party, which has been battered by the divisive antics of its far-left wing and by its calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Kinnock will try to recover ground this week when he is set to meet with President Reagan in Washington and tell him that he supports keeping U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks continue. Meanwhile, Thatcher will burnish her foreign policy credentials when she travels to Moscow next week to confer with Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...period of activism and social change." But as Alexander well knows, the future never merely recycles the past. The nation cannot return to federal taxing and spending on a Great Society scale. Most candidates in 1988 will focus wistfully on new ways to engage Government, business and labor in projects to solve problems and help people. It will never again be the all-daddy Government of the New Deal, they say, but neither will it be the shrunken Reagan version. "The swing is away from what you could call the laissez-faire approach of Ronald Reagan to one that takes...
...three decades from 1890 to the end of World War I were turbulent with industrialization. The first labor-union movement arose in idealism and turmoil and disruption. Immigrants poured in from Southern and Eastern Europe. Then came "the war to end all wars," attended by Woodrow Wilson's millennial ambitions...
...Pollard affair has led to renewed criticism of Shamir and his Labor partners in the national unity government, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. One newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, published photos depicting the trio under the caption "Everyone covering up for everyone." In Ha'aretz, Commentator B. Michael wrote that the spy case, along with the Israeli role in Iranscam, was part of a pattern in which Israeli leaders have taken the position that "We did not know, did not hear, did not see, did not report, and we are not responsible...