Word: labors
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...acts, including the Plessy decision, of the White South and the White North. Still, it is rather breathtaking to come across a living historian who denies, albeit implicitly, that Slavery and its successor regime were not fully-fledged systems established and perpetuated by the White Majority to steal the labor of African-Americans and deny them the opportunity to compete equally in society. But then, I suppose that's his backup for implicitly declaring there are no vestiges of the legacy of Slavery and Grand Apartheid still at work in American society...
...citizens' group meeting, Galatis met a mechanic named Pete Reynolds, who had left Millstone in a labor dispute two years before. Reynolds shared some hair-raising stories about his days off-loading fuel. He told Galatis--and has since repeated the account to TIME--that he saw work crews racing to see who could move fuel rods the fastest. The competition, he said, tripped radiation alarms and overheated the fuel pool. Reynolds' job was to remove the big bolts that hold the reactor head in place. Sometimes, he said, he was told to remove them so soon after shutdown that...
...There have been a lot of long hours," said Elliot C. Kirschner '96, explaining why he hadn't shaved in the last five days. However, he said he didn't have any major problems with his thesis on American labor policy in Japan...
...were recently honored to welcome sociologist William Julius Wilson to the Kennedy School of Government, and we are proud to roll out the red carpet once again. The Kennedy School has announced that it has tenured three more noted scholars: sociologist Christopher Jencks, anthropologist Katherine Newman and labor economist George Borjas...
...Jencks, who has shared the spotlight with Wilson as one of the nation's most influential sociologists, has written extensively about socio-economic inequality and the homeless. Newman has done ground-breaking research on the urban working poor, and Borjas is an expert on the relationship between immigration and labor markets...