Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human bones that have Spence's attention. Once they have been fully extricated, he will try to determine the individual's age and gender (probably male). He'll also look for evidence of disease, malnutrition or developmental abnormalities as well as wounds, broken limbs or signs of hard labor and such status symbols as a deliberately shaped head or filed teeth. The absence of lavish body ornaments, the position of the skeleton's hand (which was belatedly found behind its back, as if the arms had been tied) and the location of the burial chamber all suggest to Sugiyama that...
Harvard students rallied outside Widener Library yesterday afternoon to protest a code of conduct aimed at protecting sweatshop workers, saying the code would not establish adequate labor standards for university-licensed products...
...codes that have been adapted only require companies to pay the minimum wage, which is often appallingly low and often forces the worker to choose between food and clothing," said Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) steering committee...
PSLM, an activist group within the Phillips Brooks House Association, promotes social and economic justice and supports organized labor...
...peace policies to the electorate if he could not muster support for them from the Knesset next Monday. Netanyahu's right wing is in shambles over how much hard line and how much peace there should be in those policies. "We're going to elections," predicted confidently dovish opposition Labor party leader Ehud Barak...