Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard was again the target of a "sweatshop" rally Thursday, as nearly 200 carpenters protested a Harvard decision to invest in a luxury apartment complex plagued by charges of unfair labor practices...
WASHINGTON: Poor Alexis Herman. Thanks to jittery attorneys in the Justice Department?s Public Integrity office, the labor secretary becomes the fifth Clinton cabinet member to go under an independent counsel?s microscope. The publicity-wary DOJ lawyers advised Janet Reno to appoint an investigator, and the attorney general agreed -- despite admitting there was ?no evidence clearly demonstrating Secretary Herman?s involvement? in a cash-for-influence scam. Now it?s up to a three-judge court of appeals panel to name the lucky prosecutor...
...tells a gathering at a Beverly Hills hotel that they're spoiled by cheap labor, cheap oil and cheap sex. He tells black churchgoers to go easy on the malt liquor and give up on the "running back who stabbed his wife." He shocks a group of cosseted movie moguls by calling their product schlock...
...easy to like Carter. His passion for helping the helpless and making the world better has manifested itself in a hundred energetic ways--in his labor as a carpenter for Habitat for Humanity, for example, and in his less publicized crusades against the devastating diseases of guinea worm and river blindness in the Third World. Operating out of the Carter Center in Atlanta, he has used his commanding moral authority to mediate disputes and monitor elections and coax transitions to democracy in Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and other countries...
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