Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union matters will be decided by Union members. There is nothing undemocratic about that, Robert Scott and your cartoonist notwithstanding, HUCTW is creating the greatest labor democracy ever seen at Harvard, and is making labor history in this country. Which side are you on, boys, which side are you on? Tamsey K. Andrews Widener Library
...Justice Ayatollah Reza Laza Meza: Young man, we do not have the reputation as the most hateful nation on earth for nothing. The world expects us to bomb and maim, not to get ripped off by a bunch of satanic Americans. I sentence you to three years of hard labor pulling the food out of Khomeni's beard. In addition, I declare a national week of prayer. During this holy period, I would also encourage citizens to spit on pictures of the new Head Satan, George Bush...
...response: muscle, curfews and plans to strengthen their economies. -- Canadians give Brian Mulroney a victory and say yes to a new trade relationship with the U. S. -- In Sudan' s civil war the horrible new weapon is food, not bullets. -- Israel' s Shamir weighs a decision: Should he entice Labor into a broad coalition...
...After all, the biggest tactical error of this campaign, Quayle, was made by the other guy. And tactical explanations miss the bigger picture. The Democratic Party is not the only left-of-center party to find itself increasingly shut out of national power. Earlier this month Israel's Labor Party lost its third election out of the past four. Its decline appears irreversible. The same is true for Britain's Labor Party, defeated for the third time in a row last year...
What happened? In all three countries, the left-of-center party has allowed the party of the right to become the nationalist party and claim all the national icons, foremost among them the flag. In Britain, Labor has never recovered from its embrace of unilateral disarmament. In Israel, where politics does not suffer from subtlety, Likud and its allies simply call themselves "the national camp." Of course, parties of the right always appeal to nationalism. But formerly the nationalist idea was successfully challenged by an equally compelling idea: socialism or social democracy...