Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a Hoxha-inspired defense campaign trumpeting the threat of imminent invasion by East and West. The regime has iron control over its population. In 1967 Hoxha launched a purge in which Muslim mullahs and Christian ministers were stripped of their duties and sent to farm and labor camps; some Catholic priests who resisted were killed. Result: the suppression of organized religion...
Apparently in an effort to strengthen such contacts and introduce some internal reforms, Alia has reportedly brought more pragmatic men into the party leadership and has hinted that he may introduce labor incentives. The hard-line Hoxhaists, who still dominate the regime, are likely to resist such changes. For Alia, who is thought to have only four strong supporters on the 15-man Politburo, it is a time to tread cautiously...
Lastly, when commenting on whether Blacks will be hurt by company withdrawals his answer is "maybe yes." The real answer is definitely yes, and it is already happening. With each withdrawal it is Black, unskilled labor that must be cut to retain profitability, worsening the astronomic 25 percent unemployment rate in a country that has no Social Security or state welfare. Professor Mendelsohn uses as justification the fact that Black organizations are willing to make sacrifices to achieve their goal. While this is true it appears to hold water only in the theoretical statement, as evidenced by the recent strike...
...basics ought to be taught throughout the elementary and second school systems. This would help improve labor productivity," he said. "And for would-be effective managers, it would allow graduate education to concentrate more fully on education that is worthy of the label 'higher...
...President had barely arrived when her country's violent political problems resurfaced. On Thursday the stabbed and bullet-riddled bodies of Rolando Olalia, the president of the People's Party and the leader of the country's largest labor federation, and his driver were found beside a Manila highway. His party, a coalition of left-leaning groups, is regarded by many as a stand-in for the banned Communist Party. Before Olalia's murder, the People's Party had promised to take to the streets in a "people's uprising" if anyone attempted a coup...