Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenges that the new union faces are many. In fact, labor experts say that negotiating a first contract can be as difficult as winning a union election. They warn that if the University and HUCTW cannot negotiate a successful first contract within six months, there may be danger of a strike...
...openness of the U.S. economy during the past decade. With the global village linked by high-speed computers and communications satellites, they argue, U.S. executives easily hurdle obstacles like rising domestic interest rates by borrowing from other countries. In the same way, American manufacturers can escape high labor costs by opening factories abroad to add new capacity...
President Derek Bok announces his intention to serve as Secretary of Labor in the Bush Administration, insisting that the three days a week he will spend in Washington will not detract from his ability to perform the duties of Harvard's presidency. "Anything Graham Allison can do, I can do better," he tells the Harvard Gazette...
...Undergraduate Council votes to officially change its name to the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal People's Labor Front. Party Boss Ken "Fellow Traveller" Lee '89, hired back by the council as a secretary and ideological advisor, leads the Services Committee in setting up shanties to serve as a student center in the Yard and convinces Harvard Dining Services to install four-flavored milk dispensers in the new center...
...convinced that a facility at Rabta, 50 miles southwest of Tripoli, which began showing up in satellite photos in 1985, was indeed a chemical-weapons plant. Code-named "Pharma-150" by the Libyans, the plant was built under tight security conditions, with a 1,300-man force of cheap labor imported from Thailand. Foreign consultants entered the country without visas and left no hotel or other records of their stay in Libya...