Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...timely example is the venerable art book, a Christmas delight for the MTVer as well as those who still think a VCR is some sort of honor bestowed by Queen Elizabeth. Bless the old darlings and the authors, photographers and publishers who stubbornly ignore the electronic onslaught to labor with inspiration and care to bring us the treasures of the world's museums, the pleasures of distant lands and the handiwork of dreamers. Here are some of this season's finest...
...humanist and universalist tradition, strongly attached to human rights and democracy...Our weaknesses are mainly the result of 14 years of lax management, which consisted of spending more than was reasonable and led to the accumulation of deficits and debts. [Another weakness] is a certain resistance to change...The labor unions and professional organizations have a lot of trouble understanding that there are necessary evolutions [and that] it is better to spend money putting people to work than to pay them not to work...
...vanished. And his was not the only missing nest egg. Also unaccounted for were the savings of more than 180 of his colleagues at International Technical Services, a firm in Melville, New York, that hires engineers and places them on jobs at companies around the country. Since then the Labor Department has brought a civil complaint accusing Ralph Corace, the former owner of the company, of looting some $3 million from the 401(k) funds. "You can't trust anyone these days," says Wynn. "I feel very betrayed...
...group of teaching assistants at Yale University has threatened to withhold final grades for most of the 5,000 undergraduate students in its latest labor battle with the Ivy League school...
...fact, the ATL has been negotiating with book publishers to give it textbooks in electronic form to save the time and labor required to scan and convert textbooks itself. But publishers have balked at the idea, primarily because they fear people will widely distribute these books electronically...