Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slave labor. On every ranch, in every spacious home, in every garden, by every poolside, they are there. Mexican workers to pick up after the children, the horses, the fallen oranges. Mexican workers to keep the dirt away from the million-dollar lifestyle that these Californians have bought into...
...Rafael Hernandez Colon has said tense labor-management relations may have been a motive for the fire, but he has not blamed the Teamsters union--which had planned a strike for midnight New Year's Eve--or hotel management or non-Teamster employees...
...since retired, wrote to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole protesting what he called a "cover-up." Dole did not respond, but FAA Chief Donald Engen says "there is no basis in fact for what Mr. Langdon states . . . When you get down to it, you find it to be a labor-management issue...
...much of it is Kosmic Komix decor. Some artists, like Ellsworth Kelly, come out looking like resolute materialists whose pared-down insistence on the autonomy of formal means suggests no "spiritual" aspect (as defined by the earlier parts of the show) at all. But this is a brave curatorial labor all the same, a stimulating and important move in the general rereading of modern art that is so much a part...
...week's end maritime workers and the government reached a provisional accord containing concessions for the strikers. The rail strike continued unabated, however, and France's largest labor group, the Confederation Generale du Travail, called for stoppages in public utilities and Paris bus and Metro service to support demands for higher wages and work-rule changes. The deepening confrontation came just weeks after Premier Jacques Chirac bowed to student protesters in December by withdrawing plans to reform France's universities...