Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unilaterally take in a massive global import surge." Such a move would be one of the most dangerous actions we could undertake. Removing the booming U.S. economy from the world scene would make recovery far more difficult, as well as probably end the boom. Also on Thursday, the Labor Department noted that trade had kept inflation low even as unemployment stayed at record-low levels...
Free trade may not be a magic cure-all. Promoting labor and environmental standards abroad can be a worthwhile endeavor. However, sacrificing world growth to promote the interests of the steel industry is not. If the U.S. is truly concerned about its industries and workers, the solution is not to protect them from the marketplace in which they have to compete. Stephen E. Sachs is a first-year living in Grays Hall...
...easy labor. It took time and money, not to mention multiple trips to Best Buy, Home Depot and CompUSA, to get the job done. The couple spent hours drilling holes through nearly every wall of the house so they could string Ethernet cable from PC to PC and create wall outlets for those cables to plug into. Thibodeaux also had to figure out how to configure three Macs, three Windows PCs and two laptops so the computers would not just talk to one another but speak the same language. The couple managed to clear all these hurdles and are happy...
PSLM was one of the principal organizers of the 250-person Rally for Justice held last Tuesday, at which the University announced its commitment to full public disclosure of factory locations. PSLM members are currently urging the University to withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization that plans to monitor clothing factories worldwide...
...PSLM's flyer handed out to students yesterday, Harvard's announcement to commit to full disclosure last Tuesday was called "an absolutely vital step towards eliminating complicity in sweatshop labor...