Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who marched with UFW founder Cesar Chavez, came out against the UFW's grape boycott because of California's unique labor relations law that protects farm workers. Mahoney served as the first chair of California's Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Massachusetts does not have this type of protective farm labor law and many growers in this state perpetuate poor conditions for farm workers...
...Traders also were put on edge Friday morning by a Labor Department employment report for October showing that non-farm payrolls unexpectedly increased sharply to 284,000. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, the lowest level in 24 years...
...YORK: Bad news from the tech sector, strong labor demand and overnight weakness in the Japanese stock market joined forces to cause a sharp sell-off in early trading in U.S. markets Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 180 points in early morning trading. By close of play, it had recovered to a 103 point loss ? but investors' nerves were clearly frayed...
...labor, anti-NAFTA Democrats that refuse to crack, a defiant group that could sink the measure ? and that, come 2000, could make the Republican Party look positively united by comparison...
...bruised "fast track" warily circles the House, looking for a few good votes, it's time to get bullish on the global economy. Namely, what's Gephardt and the Big Labor boys so nettled about? The good ol' U S of A didn't get to be the economic butt-kicker it undeniably is today by keeping to itself. A McDonald's on every street corner, a pair of blue jeans on every butt. And a little tangle of American silicon on everybody's desk. Take the 80s (please). Bushido was all the rage, Detroit was in the tank...