Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dissenting editorial "Big Labor Blues" on Wednesday, November 16, reflects the type of misinformed, condescending sentiment that we only expect from the very worst of our supervisors, who are few in number. John C. Yoo, we hope you are never a manager or supervisor...
...than taking charge of the agenda. He entered the campaign a blank slate, and Bush scrawled all over him. Bush made liberal a dirty word, while Dukakis stupidly insisted that such a label was "meaningless." For John Sasso, the street-savvy alter ego of Dukakis who was rehabilitated on Labor Day weekend to take over the campaign, this single mistake spelled the end. "One of the rules of the business is somebody gets to fill up the cup," he explained. "If you want to be successful, you have to fill it up first...
Even after Labor Day, when Sasso finally persuaded Dukakis to venture into the realm of neopopulism with powerful talk of the "middle-class squeeze" and "two-job prosperity," the Governor was wont to abandon the topic without warning. This message madness continued until the final weeks, when he seized on the theme "I'm on your side" and decided to ride the populist pony as far as it would go. Still, he could not master the chords of resentment that are a basic component of economic populism...
After HUCTW narrowly won a vote to unionize the University's 3400 support staff, Harvard charged the union with unfair labor practices and asked the NLRB to overturn the vote...
Organized labor will continue to participate in a Harvard training program for future union leaders, national union officials said last week. Their participation was threatened by the University's opposition to the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...