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Word: labored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University choses to appeal the decision, it will take its case before a five-member National Labor Relations Board panel, a pro-employer group more likely to side with Harvard. Still, the national panel rarely overturns a judge's decision, especially such a harshly worded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Appealing Decision | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...appeal is a clear attempt to stave off the union's momentum. Labor experts say that an appeal would drag out the process for at least a year; a delay this long would inevitably demoralize workers who have been expecting representation and contract negotiation. Awareness of union issues dropped in the five months between the election and the first appeal, and a longer delay could only discourage worker participation. The University could lose the appeal, but still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Appealing Decision | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...demanding tastes, say some of the Duke's admen. "There had to have been at least a thousand scripts in drawers, stacked up all over the place," says one advertising veteran in the campaign. "They were all sent to Estrich, and she killed every one of them." By Labor Day, the sources claim, only two lackluster spots -- both lifted directly from Dukakis' convention speech -- managed to win Estrich's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...crowd gathered on a basketball court in the town of Shfaram. Shimon Peres sits motionless through the introductory speeches, hardly understanding a word since they are all in Arabic. Peres knows that while the Arab vote will account for as many as 14 of the Knesset's 120 seats, Labor stands a chance of taking perhaps four of those seats, the rest going to left-wing Arab parties. "If you vote against the Jews, there will be no peace," he bellows into the microphone. "If you are serious, give us your vote, and you will have rights." Among the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel A Bitter Divorce | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...pocketbook issues and focused Israeli thinking on the far more emotional themes of peace and security. In that sense, the Nov. 1 election is nothing less than a referendum on Israel's policies toward the occupied territories. Likud asserts a territorial imperative that cedes no ground to the Palestinians; Labor is willing to negotiate territorial compromise in exchange for peace. Each side accuses the other of being deceitfully unrealistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel A Bitter Divorce | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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