Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House vote came two weeks after pro-choice lawmakers surpised even themselves by winning a 216-206 vote that added the amendment expanding Medicaid abortions to the appropriations bill for labor, health and education programs. It was the first time in nearly a decade that the more liberal language had passed the House, although it had easily cleared the Senate...
...American wealth pounded fiercely at the workers who kept it running. Factories were foul and dangerous. Twelve-hour workdays were common. Wages were driven mercilessly downward. Depressions periodically rattled the economy, erasing millions of jobs that paid little even in the best of times. In an increasingly desperate atmosphere, labor and capital faced off along a line drawn in blood...
...conduct of affairs, meanwhile, the Federal Government is suffering from malnutrition. The Administration still has not nominated anyone for 77 senior Cabinet department positions. The Departments of Interior, Education, Labor and Health and Human Services have become nearly invisible.The Federal Aviation Administration's staff is still well below the level that existed before Reagan fired striking air controllers in 1981 and is using outmoded equipment to track near gridlock in the skies...
Rumors swirled for years that Pretoria was about to free the Rivonia prisoners, but many seasons of hard labor in the limestone quarries on Robben Island taught Sisulu, now 77, not to expect too much. During a visit to Cape Town's Pollsmoor Prison last Tuesday, his wife Albertina asked Sisulu what he thought about renewed speculation that his freedom was imminent. "No," he scoffed. "Let's just wait...
Biology students used to be taught that there was a strict division of labor within living cells. The nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, served as repositories of genetic information, and certain proteins, called enzymes, did all the work. But research conducted in the past decade by Sidney Altman of Yale University and Thomas Cech of the University of Colorado at Boulder has forced scientists to alter completely their ideas not only of how cells function but also of how life on earth began. Last week the Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to Altman and Cech, with the citation that "many...