Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote? Go ahead, channel surf around those annoying political ads and sleep late next Tuesday. Wall Street's already held the election, tallied the ballots and staged the victor's champagne bash to boot.That's a big part of what's been going on in the stock market since Labor Day. Sure, corporate profits have been humming, and low interest rates have provided punch. But if investors weren't content with the nation's political backdrop it's unlikely stocks would have risen as they have. The Dow Jones industrial average, after sweating through a deadly dull summer, has danced...
...G.O.P. television ad warns, "The big labor bosses. Big money. Big lies. Big liberals." Republicans from R.N.C. chairman Haley Barbour on down have accused the AFL-CIO of trying to buy the elections with its $35 million campaign. As it turns out, Barbour himself has direct knowledge of labor bosses. From 1989 till 1991, Barbour was on retainer to the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, a dues-paying member of the AFL-CIO. According to union sources, Barbour was paid about $50,000 a year for "professional services," such as lobbying. The leadership of the union at the time also seemed...
...rematch that is being watched almost as closely as the Second District race, Maloney will try again to unseat three-term Republican Gary Franks, who beat him in 1994 by only 6%. He has had help from the AFL-CIO, which, in its crusade against anti-labor Republicans, sent an organizer to the Fifth to head a media blitz against the incumbent. In his working-class district, Maloney will concentrate on labor issues: he opposes limiting overtime, and champions quality health insurance and public education...
...Smith, a labor attorney, has not been impressed by the G.O.P.'s Contract with America, which he says hurts working-class families. He has seen, he says, bewilderment in the eyes of people who have been thrown out of their jobs into bankruptcy and envisions a trim government that can protect the economic rights of average people against powerful interests and corporations. With the right funding, Smith is convinced he can return the Fifth to the Democratic column...
BORN: June 9, 1946, Beckley, W.Va. EDUCATION: NR FAMILY: Husband, James; three children, three stepchildren RELIGION: NR MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Labor-management consultant, factory worker POLITICAL CAREER: Maryland House, 1991-94; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 621C Stemmers Run Road, Baltimore...