Word: labored
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Still, of Harvard's nine professional schools, perhaps only the School of Public Health receives less attention than the GSD. The school's size and location on campus may have something to do with its low-key presence. Roughly 450 graduate students and 45 professors labor in relative obscurity in the glass and concrete Gund Hall, built in 1972 by Philip Andrews...
...issue is the employers' effort to reduce workers' wages, which average between $10 and $12, by $1 an hour and to cut health-care and pension contributions. Growers say they must lower costs to compete with foreign wineries. Labor leaders, arguing that the employers are trying to bust the union, contend that the producers' sales are flourishing. Indeed, shipments of California wine, which totaled some $5.5 billion in 1985, were up an estimated 11% for the first six months of 1986 over the same period last year. The main reason: growing wine-cooler sales...
...slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion into a pleasant middle-class neighborhood of suburban Cerritos, where residents had been enjoying the Labor Day weekend...
Philosophically wary of Big Government, the President would prefer to see private business and local government lead the way, or at least foot the bill. As they labor to come up with a program to fulfill the goals Reagan announced last month, White House aides realize that in the era of Gramm-Rudman they must fight drugs on the cheap. One top Administration official privately tempered the President's high-flown rhetoric with bottom-line bureaucratese. Said he: "You've got a zero-sum game as far as budgeting goes...
...killed. One unconfirmed report said three youths were shot by four men whose car they had tried to force from the highway leading from the township. The unrest forced most people to abide by the work stoppage. In Soweto, road traffic halted and shops remained closed. The Labor Monitoring Group, an independent agency in Johannesburg, reported that 72% of Sowetans who work in manufacturing and 85% employed in the retail sector did not show up for their jobs...