Word: labors
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Whatever the specifics of this case may be, it is certainly true that labor organizations have already been pushed too far toward the margins of the modern American economic landscape. Businesses have become stronger, larger and more organized and the influence of the worker has dwindled. It has become more and more difficult for members of disadvantaged socioeconomic groups to fight for economic--or political--power. As a result, there has been an increase in the gap between the classes, and we seem to be heading toward a society in which only those who are already privileged have an opportunity...
...Employment Cost Index, which the Fed chairman watches very closely, rose 0.8% in the third quarter of 1997, the same as the previous quarter. It's a signal that labor costs for businesses are not picking up even though the unemployment rate hovers at the lowest level in a generation...
...concert in Chicago on Labor Day Sunday and a week before sent the lyrics of Solidarity Forever to be printed in the concert program for the audience to sing. The sponsor sent back a message: "Can't sing Solidarity Forever--too political." I looked at that message, and I heard the rattle of drums and the skirl of bagpipes. I heard the Authors Guild lining up behind me. PEN. The A.C.L.U...
...mess with success? Maria Guarnaschelli, the editor who carried out the herculean labor of assembling the new Joy, provides a candid answer: "The company would like the book to sell more than 100,000 copies a year. They would like to sell at least a million or two the first year and anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 annually [after that...
...suppression of Solidarity Forever was the closest I had ever come to being censored, and I was not about to pass up my chance. I sat down and fired off an indignant letter about the meaning of Labor Day, faxed it to Chicago and was thinking how to proceed further (WRITER PLANS SING-IN; POLICE CHIEF THREATENS ARRESTS; MAYOR PLEADS FOR CALM), and it was lovely to contemplate. I mentioned the Solidarity affair to a woman friend, and she threw her arms around me and told me she admired me. This is not an everyday occurrence in my life...