Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another man, tall and neatly dressed, said he lost a large check and could not afford to stay in his apartment. The story may be true, and it may not be. In either case, it protected his dignity. He was working daily through a casual labor agency, saving money to return to the mainstream of society. This is more difficult than it sounds on improper food and scant sleep. He scorned the "bag people" around him. No, he wasn't one of them...
Earlier in the day, Dukakis will visit Southern University to discuss minority businesses and tour Louisiana State University to discuss the oil industry. He then will hold a private discussion at LSU with local academic, government, labor and business leaders about the Louisiana economy...
Davidoff said that the union's battle at Cornell has drawn attention from New York state assemblymen on the higher education and labor committees...
...political ramifications that City leaders fear most of all. Though the affair involves complex financial transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...
...Conservatives stress that they are vigorously cracking down on financial chicanery. It was they and not Labor, the Tories point out, who outlawed insider trading in 1980. Moreover, because of the comprehensive financial- services law passed last November by the Conservative-led Parliament, judges can now jail those who, under oath, refuse to answer questions that involve insider trading. "Ours is the party of law-and-order," asserted Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson in the House of Commons. "The government is determined to prevent, detect and punish wrongdoing wherever it may occur." His speech was greeted by hoots...