Word: labors
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...course, this urgency is arbitrary. I could have been "induced" on the twenty-seventh, or held onto until the twenty-ninth. But I wasn't. And the arbitrariness of pains, labor and birth 21 years ago have made 28 my lucky number, orange (from the imminent Halloween) my favorite color and October somehow a poignant month. Arbitrariness and coincidence take on meaning and inform the temporal map through which I navigate my life. Twenty-eight is one signpost, autumn another and the paragraph on Scorpio in Cosmo's horoscope a third. That's why I have a responsibility to reconfirm...
...think the get-out-the-vote effort among labor unions, college students and large urban areas will be key," he said...
...term incumbent Patty Murray, a Democrat, is the antithesis of the modern-day celebrity politician. She doesn't look like one, she doesn't talk like one, she doesn't even care to be one. "I didn't run to be a politician," she said last week after a labor rally in Spokane...
...side. "I believe in smaller government, local control, less taxes and more personal freedoms," Steven O'Donnell, an investment-brokerage executive and Smith supporter, said after being thoroughly unimpressed by a Murray speech to the Bellevue Rotary Club. "I like somebody with a lot of fire." But at the labor rally in Spokane, Murray's next-door-neighbor style got a different response. She isn't slick and hasn't been corrupted by Washington, D.C., said Kay McGlocklin, who owns a sign-making company. "People like that about her. She's genuine, and she's effective...
...course, companies aren't doing this because radicals have stormed the boardrooms. A shortage of workers is driving many of the changes. "We've not faced this sort of talent-critical, labor-critical problem...probably since wartime," says Don Hasbargen, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm. When as many as 190,000 computer jobs go unfilled, for instance, companies can't afford to be seen as racist, sexist--or even antiunion...