Word: labors
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Perhaps voters did not give Republicans a mandate to transform America into a conservative nation in 1994, but more clearly, the Unergraduation Council has no student mandate to issue decisions on national political issues. When I voted for my council representatives, I heard no one's views on labor relations. No candidate shared that information since it was considered tangential...
While the current drive does not call for a boycott, we encourage the council and HDS to become vocal supporters of this resolution to improve the lives of strawberry workers and to be amiable towards a boycott if the labor coalition feels that a boycott becomes necessary. For now, a simple endorsement by HDS is all that this being called for; HDS should move quickly to help improve these workers' lives...
...will be a tough sell. Although the Administration can show positive numbers from the agreement -- NAFTA-generated trade among the U.S., Mexico and Canada reached a record $420 billion last year -- Congressional opponents led by Richard Gephardt counter by citing 118,000 U.S. jobs lost to cheaper Mexican labor. Most telling, opponents say, is that under NAFTA a $1.4 billion trade surplus in 1994 has plummeted to a $15.4 billion deficit. Congressmen are also unhappy that fast track has prevented them from adding labor and environmental safeguards to the pact, and vow not to let that happen on any hemisphere...
Writing a paper is total effort; it does not just consist of the thought process and actual writing, but also of the labor and exercise involved in overcoming the system of Xeroxing the necessary books. We surmount broken photocopiers, many stairs, long lines, torn money, mean machines and $10 bills to write our opus...
...YORK: Markets soared on a lower-than-expected rise in labor costs. The Labor Department report of a modest 0.6 percent rise in wages and benefits convinced investors that the Fed won't tighten interest rates at its next meeting three weeks from now, says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "It's hard to remember the last time the markets reacted so eagerly to this report." Indeed, now that the Dow has almost completely erased the sobering slide that began March 11, the rest of the market seemed today to have to caught a euphoria that Kadlec called...