Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group that corresponds to mainstreaming impulses within the gay community. It's also the largest--membership 250,000, up from 85,000 just five years ago. Sedate and pragmatic, with a name so innocuous it could be transferred intact to a group devoted to fair labor practices, H.R.C. was established to speak to the middle class in middle-class terms. Its annual black-tie fund-raising dinner is the peak event of the gay political season. The guest speaker last year was Clinton; this year's was Al Gore. Executive director Elizabeth Birch is a corporate lawyer from Silicon Valley...
John F. T. Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, and a former Harvard vice-president, told The Times for a recent article that a U.S. delegation to Kosovo had found "horrendous human rights violations, violations of humanitarian law and acts of punitive destruction on a massive scale...
...municipal government is the city's largest employer, providing jobs for 10 percent of the Cambridge labor market, and many city officials admit that addressing diversity hiring and workplace atmosphere must be a priority...
...owners argued that the right to withhold pay by imposing a lockout was a tenet of labor...
...which has never lost a regular-season game to labor strife, was already struggling to rebound from last year's arrests of five players on marijuana charges and from the ugly spectacle of Golden State guard Latrell Sprewell's assaulting his coach. The league was also facing the prospect of life without Jordan, who made pro basketball a global franchise. And now the sport is about to alienate its fans, precisely when baseball is on the rise...