Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meager budgets of independent film makers allow them to take the risks which the major studios are unwilling to assume. They can create multifaceted characters and develop themes with enough subtlety that viewers must labor to understand them. They rely on plot rather than on explosions to keep the attention of their audiences. Of course, some Indy films are as terrible as Hollywood flicks, but the best of them are more intellectually rewarding than anything that Hollywood has to offer...
...statute drew bitter criticism early on. The first five independent counsels brought no charges against the subjects they were pursuing, but one target, former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, was fuming at the end of a long legal journey in which he was cleared. "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?" he famously said when he was acquitted of other larceny and fraud charges that had forced him out of office. Another Reagan Administration official investigated (and eventually cleared) in a separate probe, Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson, battled the law's constitutionality...
...second segment of the night dealt with the global problem of child labor...
Pharis J. Harvey, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund, talked about children forced to work to augment their family's income. He said child labor was a result of "poverty compounded by policy and prejudice...
...both years, the committees voted multiple proposals addressing concerns about forced labor, human rights, equal employment, compensation for corporate executives, and military issues including contracting criteria and the sale of military materials overseas...