Word: labors
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...Mere labor union boilerplate doctrine? Not necessarily. Critics like California Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi fear that American companies, in their quest for sales are handing China "our technology, our production and our genius, the very blueprints of our economy." President Clinton and Congress, with support from Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, are renewing China's most-favored-nation trade status. Yet, during his 1992 campaign Clinton pledged, "If other nations refuse to play by our trade rules, we'll play by theirs"--implying that he would retaliate against protectionism. Pressed to explain the gap between his rhetoric and his record...
...unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn't begin until Labor Day. Many Republicans hope that's not too late...
During the first years of his imprisonment for leftist views by the military regime of General Suharto, Pramoedya, as the 71-year-old writer is known, was forbidden to have books and writing materials. The prohibition (enforced for all jailed intellectuals) was deadly serious, and at his hard-labor camp on the island of Buru some prisoners who violated it were executed. Pramoedya's response was to compose his novels orally and recite them to other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could...
These were astonishingly unjust, even for colonial times. Forced labor by natives, a kind of tax paid for the privilege of being ruled by Holland, was coming to an end, but expropriation of native land for sugar plantations and other industry was still common. Indonesians were without standing in civil or criminal disputes with whites, as Minke discovers when in his late teens he marries Annelies, an ethereal mixed-blood beauty. She inherits some property, and her venomous white half-brother has no trouble having the marriage declared nonexistent and sailing for Holland with both Annelies and her money...
...cities have been searching for the competitive advantage that will allow them to restore their classical dynamism. For years, New Bedford flirted with the fishing industry. Other northeastern cities are now attempting to rebuild their economy with historical tourism, outlet shopping or a new industrial base. Faced with unionized labor, large wages and the high cost of utilities, none of these endeavors are taking...