Word: labors
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...league's basketball-related income, and each team has a salary cap of $24.3 million. (There's one exception: a team can spend any amount to keep its own free-agent players.) So a team that brings in $50 million, an average figure, has plenty of money left after labor costs. Of course, "labor costs" doesn't quite describe the exquisite athleticism of Michael Jordan sinking a fallaway jumper with defenders dangling from him like mismatched earrings...
Over the past two decades, the percentage of two-career families in America has grown substantially. Today, 48 percent of all workers come from two-career families, up from 41 percent in 1980, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number is expected to top the 50-percent mark by the end of the century...
...Palestinians or for not resuming the negotiations even though nothing substantive came out of the meeting. "There was no progress on setting a date for the Israeli redeployment from Hebron or resuming negotiations on the interim or permanent status agreements," says Silver. The Hebron negotiations, reached with Shimon Peres' Labor government, are still a sore point between the Palestinians and Netanyahu's government. Silver reports that Arafat's point of view is that all the security concerns have already been negotiated and accepted by the previous government. Meanwhile, Netanyahu continues to hold a hardline stance, refusing to meet with Arafat...
...such must-have souvenirs as jogging suits, $20 T shirts or baby baseball togs. Or a $399 leather jacket--just add it to the food bill. The logo gear is far more profitable than the edibles, with a markup as high as 200%, compared with 10% on perishable, labor-intensive meals...
...sharp wit, combined with Cambridge-accented eloquence, made the longtime liberal fixture a legendary figure in Israeli politics. Born in South Africa, raised in England, he was appointed Israel's first ambassador to the U.N. in 1949. From his Labor seat in parliament, he was named Foreign Minister in 1966 and remained in office for eight years--still a record for that post. After serving as chairman of the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee, the dovish Eban left parliament in 1988 after 29 years. He continues to campaign for peace with the Palestinians through speeches and writings. Author...