Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curriculums were a rip-off and assailed fat in congressional education budgets. Except for hearty support from President Reagan, whom Bennett strove mightily to please, most reaction from lawmakers and educators ranged from bemusement to cold rage. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, summed up the early opinion: "I would give him failing grades...
...French public-service strike, the most serious in nearly two decades, looks more Italian every day. Workers are demanding, among other things, wage increases higher than the government's 3% ceiling. Police have had to clear picketers off railroad tracks at scores of stations, and labor unrest has spread to Communist-led work stoppages on Paris subways, in the electric-power service and on the docks. At week's end the rail strike finally seemed to be losing steam, but the unrest could be prolonged in other areas...
Over the past year, Labor Secretary William Brock has been working on a plan for dealing with what he calls the "new realities," among them the need for a more mobile and flexible skilled-labor force. A task force headed by Malcolm Lovell, a professor at George Washington University, recommended consolidating diverse federal programs and almost tripling the $344 million annually spent on worker retraining...
...STILL ENJOYED rambling around the ranch homes and orange groves. But now I also noticed the ever-present Mexican workers who were tidying up the yard and picking the fruit. Life wouldn't be so relaxed for the lucky ranch dwellers without the sweat of their hired labor. They probably wouldn't even live there without the Mexicans to pick up after them...
Aida K. Press, Radcliffe's director of public information, said the school regretted the commission's original decision, but decided not to contest it. School officials, she said, did not want their "labor of love" turned into a political issue...