Word: labors
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Caliphs in Cairo, Cordoba and Baghdad rend the unity of Islam, but not the prosperity. Gold from Nubia and the Caucasus is mined into dinars, the common currency from Spain to Lahore; and slaves from Asia, Europe and Africa labor in mines, cities, armies and harems from Cadiz to Samarkand. Meanwhile, Europe is still limping out of the Dark Ages...
...words and his actions. Believing there had never been a time other than the Civil War when democratic institutions had been in such jeopardy, Roosevelt fashioned a New Deal, which fundamentally altered the relationship of the government to its people, rearranged the balance of power between capital and labor and made the industrial system more humane...
Omidyar wrote some code and over Labor Day weekend of 1995 launched what he called AuctionWeb, which was supported on the $30-a-month Internet service provider he was hooked up to from home. (The site's domain name was www.ebay.com and eBay was the name that stuck.) There were no Pez dispensers--that came later--but there were listings for a whole lot of computer hardware. eBay started out free, but it quickly attracted so much traffic that Omidyar's Internet service upped his monthly bill to $250. Now that it was costing him real money, Omidyar decided...
...Teamsters are about to file a civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act--a law often used in the past by the government to combat Mob influence in labor. One target of the suit: Teamster ex-president RON CAREY, ejected from the union in 1997 after a finding that his 1996 run for the top job was tainted by campaign-finance abuses...
Carey, Trumka and the D.N.C. have all said they did nothing improper. The suit could be a blow to the Democrats' presidential hopes by splitting a labor movement they were counting on for united support...