Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Discussing the need to support stability and combat "abusive child labor" (does that mean non-abusive child labor is OK?), criticizing the IRS for its abuses and talking at length about how to spend the still imaginary federal budget surplus, history-seeking Clinton seemed to echo the forgettable Calvin Coolidge's best known, ironic line, "The business of America is business." Perhaps ours is an era when economic success cannot help but be the barometer of American life...
According to Alter, labor organizers received a lot of positive press from The Crimson. Buttons with the message "You Can't Eat Prestige" abounded in the news-room during union negotiations at Harvard, revealing the editors' sympathy for low-wage workers...
...achieved a legendary status worthy of the Action Man, and it's not hard to see why: If one is to believe the stories, the Sperm Bank Solution involves minimum commitment, high reward and little, er, labor...
...Resistance on the Hill has jeopardized the proposed $20 billion U.S. contribution to the IMF Asian bailout. Big Labor Democrats and traditional Republicans such as Newt Gingrich are on board, says Carney. "But there's a deepening nativist strain in the GOP, best characterized by someone like Pat Buchanan. They don't like explaining at home why the U.S. is spending billions to bail out some South Korean bank halfway around the world...
Gannett News found that five months after the Sugar Cane League took 37 congressional staff members to Florida, Congress voted to maintain sugar price supports. And now that 60 legislators and staff members have gone to the Northern Mariana Islands, known for cheap immigrant labor for the garment industry as well as white sandy beaches, we haven't heard much lately about applying labor laws to any sweatshops that this U.S. commonwealth might harbor...