Word: labors
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...problem has to do with who was in the study. Straus and company culled their information from telephone interviews conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics beginning in 1979 with 807 mothers of children ages 6 to 9. They were asked how many times they had spanked their children in the past week and what the kids' behavior was like--did they lie, cheat, act up in school? Then the bureau polled the same group two years later. Sure enough, the kids who had been spanked had become increasingly antisocial...
...happens every Labor Day. Burning Man, as the festival is known, is an annual outbreak of techno-tribalism that has the makings of the next great American holiday. If this year's party is like past ones, the immense desert flats will be teeming with offbeat stunts, weird art, flamboyant performances and bizarre, gasoline-powered contraptions. When we pulled up to Burning Man for the first time several years ago, we were greeted by a fat guy riding a large, furry rabbit motor scooter. He sat behind the ears. Across the desert we could see a truck hauling a mattress...
While bouncing supply ships off his space station, cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev found time to star in a commercial. The fruits of his labor premiere Friday when Israel's Channel Two runs an ad for Tnuva, an Israeli brand of long-life milk, featuring Tsibliyev drinking a floating blob of it on the Mir space station. Hope Tsibliyev is getting royalties ? Russia is still considering withholding his flight bonus for his orbital fender-bender...
...that the men in brown are back on the road, salute the labor struggles that came before with 1970's The Molly Maguires. It's the Irish sticking it to the man in the coal pits of 1879 Pennsylvania, where though the take-home is twenty-four cents a week, all the positions are full-time. Starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris, it's a face of labor so sooty it should screen at Teamsters meetings, not to mention smoke-out seminars...
WASHINGTON: The Teamsters union and UPS reached an agreement late Monday night, according to Clinton administration officials. A press conference with Labor Secretary Alexis Herman and perhaps UPS and Teamster officials was expected before midnight...