Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weinberg thinks that by the end of 1998 unemployment may rise to 5.2%, but Sinai believes it initially might dip just under the 24-year low of 4.7%, registered in October. Either way, labor markets will remain very tight, and that affects almost every aspect of the outlook for next year...
Production will grow more slowly, says Zimmerman, in part because "we're running out of labor." The shortage will also push up wages. Weinberg hopes that much of the increase can be offset by higher productivity resulting from the heavy business investment of recent years (business spending on new plant and equipment has been shooting up 18% a year). Nonetheless, prices will be forced up at a slightly faster rate than...
...fund's bailouts in Asia will be money down the drain unless its prescriptions become permanent reforms. For that the region will need strong political leaders who are willing to battle the alliance of bureaucrats, business and labor interests that benefited from the old system. Asian governments have been resisting the details in IMF rescues. The bailout of Indonesia has been slowed by the reluctance of officials to act against firms connected to the children of President Suharto...
...founded the Grape Coalition, an ad hoc committee, to inform students about labor conditions and environmental standards in grape cultivation, issues which have been attacked by boycott supporters...
...boycott defenders included campus groups such as RAZA, a Mexican-American/Chicano/Latino student organization; the Progressive Student Labor Movement; and UNITE, an umbrella organization for undergraduate activists...