Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veteran andformer federal district court judge nominee, Hopeis known as much for her status as a Washingtoninsider as for her work as a transportationlawyer. Holding on to many of the connections shemade 25 years ago as a law student, Hope has keptclose ties to prominent Republican figures likeSecretary of Labor Elizabeth H. Dole and Sen.Robert Dole...
Hope is a close friend of both Dole and his wife, Labor Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, whom she has known since they were both students at the Law School, Cannon said. Former President Ford is another political ally, he added...
...revival and a restive military, Argentines will soon go to the polls in search of democratic solutions. Daily life in the once proud nation has been crippled by a 400% inflation rate, 12% unemployment or underemployment and, since 1981, a 40% drop in real wages. A crumbling infrastructure and labor strikes have curtailed mail delivery, disrupted phone service and left an energy shortage so severe that electricity is rationed...
...America has saved dozens of failing mills in such wage- for-stock trade-offs. In distressed industries faced with low-wage foreign competition, says James Smith, a U.S.W. staffer in Pittsburgh, "one of the ways American workers can compete is by having some investment income along with a lower labor income." But an ESOP is no guarantee that a company will thrive. Despite its stock plan, New Jersey's Hyatt Clark Industries, a ball- bearing maker, collapsed in 1987 because of poor labor relations...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff called the labor troubles in Memphis a distraction and advised against his going there. They argued that King had a mass of details to work out for the Poor People's Campaign, a nationwide series of marches and speeches that would end with a giant rally in Washington. But the civil rights leader insisted on marching in Memphis, where black sanitation workers employed by the city were demonstrating to form a union. These men, he said, were abused and overworked, yet unwilling to remain silent -- exactly the qualities he was looking for. Said King...