Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pounds of fertilizer, small mountains of earth, gallons upon gallons of water and absurd quantities of labor are channelled into Yard lawncare throughout the semester. But to what end? Why does Harvard choose to spend unknown sums of money compromising aesthetics and limiting student A-to-B point options? Seemingly, they do so to create a billion-bladed carpet of velvety green stretching from Widener to Memorial Church and away on all sides, realized just in time to be crushed irreparably by the thousands of bodies standing, sitting or milling excitedly about on it during the Class Day ceremonies...
...what are the environmental impacts? How much money is spent on the labor, water, fertilizer, pesticide, grass seed and other materials involved in the annual lawn transformation? Clearly, as attested to by the vigor and duration of the landscape assault, the lawn is high priority, and big bucks are spent...
Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) added a new method to their repertoire of protest techniques yesterday. During prime time outside the Science Center--at high noon and again at 1 p.m.--they staged a street theater performance to protest the University's sweatshop policy...
Glunt described Dunlop, who has also served as secretary of labor during the Gerald Ford administration, as a "scholar of the theoretical and practical...
...other speakers at the event echoed Wang's passion for the democratic cause. Lu Jing Hua, a labor activist in the Tiananmen protest, spoke about the importance of free speech for the Chinese people and told the audience about her experience as a protestor...