Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congratulate the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) for hashing out a three-year labor agreement, after several months of negotiations. The accord represents a victory for compromise, coming much more quickly and with far less acrimony than the bitter negotiations on the last contract...
...leagues anymore." League bowling is in fact down by almost 50% since 1980, a victim of changing life-styles: longer commutes, an explosion of amusement choices, a shortage of leisure time. "Let's say you used to sign up to bowl every Monday at 6:30 p.m. from Labor Day to Easter, which would be a typical bowling season," says the A.B.C.'s Mark Miller. To day's American doesn't want to do anything every Monday at 6:30 p.m. from Labor Day to Easter...
...reservation's federal food-distribution program. "It's that there is no work for them to do." There is no major commercial development near the reservation, which sits within South Dakota's Shannon County in the shadow of the Badlands, and no factories or malls. Construction work provides some labor: unemployment drops from 85% in winter to a still miserable 65% when it is warm enough to build. Oglala who have ventured off-reservation to find work have more often found alienation and a different kind of penury and have returned. All are almost totally dependent on the Federal Government...
...Atlantic City thought they should give a prize and a title to a pretty girl. The town was the East Coast's premier seaside resort, so she probably ought to wear a bathing suit. And hoping to extend the summer season, the pageant's creators scheduled it for after Labor...
...Whiting told why he was bitter enough to risk his neck. He is convinced--without any real evidence--that the French used the Foreign Legion troops on Mururoa as nuclear guinea pigs. They were a labor force, reinforcing the island's coral with concrete and rebuilding roads that buckled after bomb tests. But the legionnaires worked in areas contaminated by radiation, Whiting insisted. Someone not French had to clean up debris after explosions. Blood and urine samples were taken weekly, but no results were revealed. He was beaten up, he said, for asking a single question about the effectiveness...