Word: labors
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Several universities across the country have always known of the importance of studying Chicano/Latino issues and have established departments that focus on the significant contributions of our culture and labor. Professors including Rodolfo Acuna from California State University at Northridge, Carlos Munoz from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Visiting Professor Maria Herrera-Sobek from the University of California at Irvine have devoted themselves to better understanding the experiences of Chicanos and Latinos in the United States...
...well as in science and technology. Lectures and discussions about social stratification, bilingualism, ethnic identity and race have historically reflected the black-white paradigm--one into which we do not completely fit. We are raza, an identity alluding to the struggles of the Latino experience, our familial pride, our labor and our unity as a people...
...barraged with information about Republican James Longley. A stranger calls on the phone to praise Longley as a "friend of small business." A radio spot touts the lawmaker's "antigovernment" stands. A TV ad complains that Longley is the victim of "cheap shots" by "Big Labor bosses." Then there's the whole series of anti-Longley commercials, which charge that the Congressman has voted to trim student loans, reduce the security of pension funds and "cut Medicare [to] give new tax breaks to the wealthy." Says Bruno: "It's enough to make your head spin...
...Integration cannot take place until labor negotiations and other administrative matters have been taken care of," Riley says...
...existential side, consider the vast number of material benefits that Western civilization has brought us. Science and technological progress have tamed hunger and disease, drastically reduced the necessity of physical labor, and brought us to a higher standard of living than any seen in human history-including, students take note, the division of labor which allows some people to devote their time entirely to academic pursuits (and to bashing Western civilization). Contrast these benificent achievements with the age-old sorrows of malnutrition, disease, and back-breaking physical drudgery that plagued the peoples Columbus encountered in the New World...