Word: labors
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...addition to the discussions of the living wage issues, the committee will also consider other factors that traditionally are considered in determining wages: the local labor market; the kind of work being performed; working conditions; the existence of labor agreements to which a contractor has committed that are outside of Harvard's purview and that may well include benefits; and the University's obligation to exercise the fiscal prudence necessary to maintain high academic and research standards while holding tuition costs down...
...last 30 years, students have moved on from the fight over Vietnam to battle for divestment from South Africa, for gender and racial equality on campus and today, in the living wage and anti-sweatshop movements, for stricter University labor policies...
...other end of gender spectrum, she stands out as one of the few powerful woman in the conservative Regan administration when she served as Secretary of Labor. Indeed, she has a talent for being an iconoclast while at the same time fully associating herself with the conservative mores of society, a talent which along with her drive allowed her a level of professional success unmatched by almost any of her contemporaries...
...that it involves a "giving up" of something, whether it be anger, the right to vengeance or, say some skeptics, the memory of an event the way it really was. In The Sunflower, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked whether it would be proper for a Jew in a slave-labor camp to grant forgiveness to a dying SS man begging absolution for earlier murders. As part of a symposium that is incorporated into the book, the writer Cynthia Ozick said absolutely not: "Forgiveness is pitiless. It forgets the victim. It blurs over suffering and death. It drowns the past...
...said that buildings are not so much made as born, then architect Zaha Hadid has been in labor an awfully long time. But it's finally time to break out the cigars. The most admired female architect in the world is bringing forth a veritable brood of buildings. The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first major American art institution to be designed by a woman--let alone a woman born in Baghdad--has a construction starting date of December. A garden exhibition center in Weil am Rhein in Germany, her second building for furniture manufacturer Vitra, opened last...