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Word: labored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: One can't start recriminations too early in a marriage. You know, Wanda, pushing back the frontier of the preposterous is arduous labor, and I often wonder why lawyers and sociologists have to shoulder so much of the burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Do Lawyers Make a Marriage? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...much worse" than in other Communist-bloc countries. The national economy was collapsing due to "incompetence, lack of knowledge, the pursuit of private interests and bureaucratic swank and arrogance." Seldom since the heyday of Solidarity, the independent trade-union movement, had such harsh blasts been sounded at a Polish labor conference. But the times they are a'changing: the impassioned orator was chairman of the government-sponsored All-Poland Trade Unions Alliance, and seated behind him was Communist Party Chief Wojciech Jaruzelski, who listened to the blistering broadside with apparent equanimity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland a Fragile Bid for Coexistence | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...next step, needed to appease the generals who have backed her and to avoid a split within the armed forces, will probably be the firing of one or more of the leftist ministers whom the military has also criticized. Among these are Labor Minister Augusto Sanchez and Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. Aquino has appeared to be reluctant to make changes, partly out of friendship and partly because she does not have many suitable candidates to offer as replacements. In addition, she needs to marshal support for the campaign to ratify the new constitution. Enrile, who may emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: First a Firing, Then a Truce | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Japanese manufacturers, for their part, are maneuvering to meet the challenges that have been posed by a strong yen and weakening exports. Companies are increasingly purchasing parts from low-cost foreign suppliers or & moving production to such cheap-labor countries as South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Many manufacturers are opening plants in the U.S., in part to avoid restraints imposed on imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sun Also Sets | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...1930s, Boris Pasternak and other Russian writers were officially encouraged to visit some of the Soviet Union's quarter-million newly established collective farms. Several of the writers produced the expected screeds: they marveled at the revolution wrought in the countryside and heralded a new era of joyful collective labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Against the Peasants the Harvest of Sorrow | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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