Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McDonald's now ubiquitous Golden Arches, a Swanson food technician named Betty Cronin created the "TV dinner." Back then, when meal preparation took an average two hours, the frozen meal on a three-section aluminum tray was lauded for helping mothers "burdened with baby-boom offspring." Today the once labor-intensive process of preparing a meal has been shrink-wrapped to a tidy 15 minutes...
...South Korea: Not that disgruntled labor is anything new there, but the workers at Hyundai Motors are threatening to strike (which would cripple the Korean economy) unless they all get to keep their jobs (which would cripple the Korean economy...
...course Paris may yet have to deal with threats from Basque and Corsican insurgents, and even French truckers: In 15 blockades around the country Tuesday ahead of wage talks, more than 300 truckers turned roads into parking lots, implying that labor could threaten travel chaos for next month's tournament. But the unions may struggle to keep its members out on the barricades once television crosses live to France's kickoff against South Africa on June...
...down with upwardly mobile blacks moving into the valley. In the black community of New Haven, bitterly set cheek-by-jowl with the neverland of Yale, Finnegan allows himself a generalization about "structural unemployment--the cruelest edge of the American economy's deindustrialization and increasing reliance on untrained, insecure labor, and a close cousin to the pervasive undereducation in public schools in poor and working-class neighborhoods...
PHIL KNIGHT Nike CEO will end child labor and improve factories abroad. Go, Phil--now hike that minimum wage...