Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene is so horribly familiar. A sunny afternoon. Shoppers crowding a city street. Then the deadly blast of a bomb, carnage and chaos. Neither the former peacemaking Labor government nor the present security-minded Likud government has figured out a way to stop...
...Right now that's tied up in the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill," she said, but added the administration is pushing to raise the maximum grant to $3,000, an 11 percent increase...
...back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction of usual deliveries, as the stalemate becomes a stage for the Labor vs. Corporate America battle over the use of part-time workers to cut costs and stay competitive in the way-new global economy...
...thinks the push abroad, and the complementary balancing act domestically, will be easy. Says Bradley Bertoch, a venture capitalist (and nonpracticing Mormon) who specializes in attracting money to Utah: "The church needs to recruit adequate labor to drive its business growth beyond the borders of the U.S. But at the same time it has to make sure that it doesn't lose control of the home ground. It's the same problem of resource allocation in new markets faced by any multinational...
...hours a day, seven days a week, for roughly 74[cents] an hour. Of the $400 each worker was paid monthly, $200 was siphoned off for rent. In a locked room off the areas scattered with mattresses, sleeping bags and bunk beds, police found evidence of their hard labor: $35,000 in cash, $10,000 of it in $1 bills. Within hours, five Paoletti clansmen and two others were arrested, but U.S. and Mexican authorities were still hunting for clan patriarch Jose Paoletti Moreda, 59, who allegedly masterminded the "mattress mill," and his son Renato Paoletti Lemus, 20, who allegedly...