Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), a group affiliated with the Phillips Brooks House Association, protested human rights abuses by the designer jeans company Guess? in front of the Science Center yesterday...
...Another reason we focus on Guess is because it had been caught twice with notable violations of labor standards," Morgan said...
...gall to underestimate Steven Spielberg. But the idea of opening a violent and depressing film about World War II in the middle of the summer--a time usually reserved for action movies, comedies, action comedies and sequels--must have sounded rather brazen to colleagues and competitors alike. Yet by Labor Day weekend Saving Private Ryan's box office receipts totaled $166.6 million, making it the second-highest grossing film of the summer. Spielberg's war has both won over the critics (Joel Siegel gushes that he "can't wait to see it for the third time") and the American public...
...Siberia. KGB film was obtained showing the arrest of CIA agents named by Aldrich Ames, and these are some of the most startling scenes in the series. Finding interview subjects was also arduous. Senior researcher Svetlana Palmer tracked down some people from old books that mentioned heroes of socialist labor. Then she had to get them to open up. "I spent many hours in various kitchens of people," she says, "just talking and explaining what the series was about, what it was for, and literally convincing them that there was no harm in talking...
...course I'm grateful that the Russians no longer send people to slave-labor camps for remarking that the factory's party boss is getting a bit plump, but I'm confused about why it's all right for the Chinese to do that sort of thing and still be our pals. See how complicated it is? Sometimes I find myself wondering what they did with the Iron Curtain after the cold war ended. Did they throw it out? Or is it just in a basement somewhere with a lot of large busts of Lenin, ready to be put back...