Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gephardt's endorsement, coming nearly a year before the actual primary, gives Gore a powerful ally within the Democratic Party. Gephardt is popular with labor interests and other traditional Democratic constituencies...
...order to better ensure that apparel bearing the Harvard name is produced under quality working conditions, the University will affiliate itself with the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a new organization planning to monitor clothing factories around the world, a University official said yesterday...
...Students in the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) have been agitating for the University to take measures against sweatshop labor for months. Last Tuesday, anti-sweatshop protesters joined in a 250-person campus rally outside University Hall with campus activists for two other causes...
...most potent singer of this bunch is Marc Anthony, who describes his August album as "not salsa, not dance, just pop." Anthony, who is said to be planning a duet with Madonna, will have to labor a little harder to introduce himself to English-speaking audiences, despite his fine work on Broadway in The Capeman and several small film roles. "When I go into stores in Times Square and ask for my album, they say it's in the back, in the international section," Anthony complains. "I recorded it on 47th Street! How can you get more local than that...
...doesn't take a wing-tipped M.B.A. to spot the flaw here--much of the world is in or near recession, demand for personal computers is slowing, so are corporate profits. Amid that sluggishness, the Labor Department said Friday that unemployment inched higher in February--to 4.4%, from 4.3% the previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics...