Word: labors
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...attempt to accelerate the peace process, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres named new cabinet ministers and forged a new coalition within the parliament, aligning his Labor Party with the pro-peace Meretz bloc and two members of a right-wing faction. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "Peres is making the right decisions. The coalition is essentially the same coalition Rabin had before he was killed. Peres is in a very strong position right now, because of the reverberations from the assassination. Peres is riding on that. He also very wisely moved some younger Labor Party leaders into...
...moment, that tide has drowned out the most vituperative antipeace zealots. Slogans denouncing Rabin, the Labor Party government and the peace plan have disappeared from Israeli auto bumpers, windows and walls. Some of the most militant Zionist groups hastened to condemn Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, and anyone who applauded his bloody act. The Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza even passed a resolution pledging to "silence those voices...
...going to stop the legitimate and forceful debate" about the peace process. It is a debate, however, that the assassination of Rabin has turned suddenly and sharply against him. Likud and Netanyahu had for months been building up a big lead in public-opinion polls over the Labor government. But the first postassassination poll, published Friday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, showed that Rabin's successor, acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, would win 54% of the votes if an election were held today; Netanyahu would take only 23%. The poll also indicated that if a new Israeli Knesset were elected...
...that a lot people doubt gives much serious thought to anything these days. In partisan terms, it is likely she will be replaced by a Republican, so it won't be a net loss for the GOP. But she will be missed." Kassebaum, who is chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, joins fellow GOP senator Hank Brown and Democrats Bill Bradley, James Exon, Howell Helflin, Bennett Johnston, Sam Nunn, Claiborne Pell, David Pryor and Paul Simon in leaving the Senate after the 1996 elections. Kassebaum, 63, says she intends to devote herself to her family and adds...
...work. The current guidelines that determine monetary distribution in licensing fees should be applied to the new arrangements. On the whole, it appears that the University will benefit substantially from the harvesting of knowledge in this information age. It has taken a great while for the fruits of our labor to mature. Now that knowledge is valued by commercial society as much as it is by the intellectual sphere, we shouldn't stop ourselves from benefitting financially in order to further our educational ends. However, we must make certain that Harvard's research facilities exist to further truth, not profits...