Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nehme says the stores' proximity to one another is an asset in that it allows employees at one store to request help-in the form of food or labor-in short order...
...date, the University has announced its association with the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a monitoring group serving several universities, and has hinted at the possibility of hiring independently the accounting firm Price-Waterhouse-Coopers (PWC), also in a monitoring capacity. In recent weeks, SAS has registered its disapproval of both the FLA and PWC because of their ties to corporate interests. The activists continue to push for a more acceptable monitoring plan and the establishment of a formal student-faculty committee that will shape the University's anti-sweatshop policy. Their diligence has ensured that the issue will...
...members of the LWC, while achieving fewer concrete results than SAS, have nonetheless waged a successful consciousness-raising campaign on campus. Since the announcement by the city of Cambridge that $10 per hour is the "living wage" necessary to survive in the community, the labor group has made it their number one priority to have Harvard adopt the same standard for its own employees...
...title figure, a no-hoper in early middle age, who checks the oxygen levels in the 16 ponds of a Mississippi catfish farm. Daisy is his estranged sister. They are poor and white, though not white trash. Mack Bell owns the farm and owns Ned too. Mack has labor troubles. He summons Ned, as he has been doing since high school. Retribution explodes in the blast of a gun. Daisy, a figure strong enough to have been limned by Faulkner, suspects what has happened and acknowledges her life. She says, "Ned's my brother...
...governing partner with the party of Prime Minister-elect EHUD BARAK, who preceded Lipkin-Shahak as military chief of staff. And the two generals were once close, though their relationship tensed over Lipkin-Shahak's initial decision to run against Barak, instead of beside him, in the Labor Party...