Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today only those can count on success who are marching in step with the times, who are drawing the necessary conclusions from the changes resulting from the fact that the world has entered the era of high technology, of intellectual labor, of the decisive role of science," he said...
...proposed legislation, which will go before a hearing of the Joint Commerceand Labor Committee this morning, would establisha new formula granting low-income claimants up to80 percent of their weekly wage...
...controversial bill, introduced by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and now being considered by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, would provide students with $10,000 to be used for tuition or job training for each year they spend in a proposed Civilian Service, a national program which would promote projects such as land reclamation and adult education...
Even more important, as Moscow has recently discovered, the totalitarian solution cannot work indefinitely. Sooner or later the sacrifice of individuals standards of living leads to domestic problems: low work incentives, low labor productivity, economic stagnation and eventually, as events prove, domestic turmoil...
...strongest consensus in the poll was opposition by 86% to a change in Israeli law "so as to recognize only those conversions performed by Orthodox rabbis." When last fall's election gave neither Likud nor Labor a clear majority, each considered forming a coalition with ultra-Orthodox religious parties. The price would have been high: giving the fanatic religious groups exclusive power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government...