Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the term African-American does represent an advance in the continual evolution toward a true identity for a people whose ancestors were forcibly brought to this hemisphere by Europeans, forcibly held in slave labor and forcibly mixed in racial composition, it may be imprecise, or equivocal at best...
...school and married him ten weeks later. They sat together in the front row in tax lectures; it was Marilyn who spoke up frequently and sought out the professor after class. She was due to deliver her first child on the day of the bar exam, and had labor induced early so she could take the test. The young couple hung out a law shingle together above the family newspaper office in Huntington, but Marilyn ran the practice. A Huntington friend, Sandy Cook, says Marilyn was the first "superwoman" in her set, expertly balancing career and family, even baking bread...
...every move and every trip. "She's the type of person," says son Marvin, "who always wanted us to get to the airport an hour early. Dad likes to get to the airport five minutes before departure." She was so organized -- rarely missing one of the kids' games, throwing labor-intensive birthday parties, volunteering for scoutmaster -- that a friend says she could have run General Motors with time left over. "She always made me feel like a slob," said Marion Chambers, an acquaintance from the Bushes' days in Midland, Texas. Barbara writes thank-you notes the minute she gets home...
...pencil-and-paper tests proliferate, they could run into as much opposition as the electronic variety. Massachusetts has explicitly banned written character tests, and other states have laws that may curb their use. The House Education and Labor Committee has asked the Office of Technology Assessment to determine whether such tests are dependable gauges of integrity. "There's a tremendous disagreement about whether you can even measure honesty," says Wayne Camara, who develops testing standards for the American Psychological Association. But no one disputes that when honesty is lacking, the effect on business can be extremely expensive...
...boldly challenging La Quina, Salinas has perhaps signaled his intention to end the cozy relationship between the P.R.I. and corrupt labor unions. The President may have won the opening skirmish, but the war is not over. "They had to do it if they want to continue the restructuring of Mexico's economy," said a private economist. "They seemed to have planned it very well, but things could still go wrong...