Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LABOR GAINS...
Major League Baseball came a step closer to losing its antitrust exemption when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-8 to lift the rule. No other professional league has such a deal, which classifies baseball as a sport rather than a business, and thusallows employers to skirt some federal labor laws. The measure now goes to the Senate floor, where a vote is expected to be extremely close...
...bipartisan group of senators may quietly succeed, if only incrementally, where President Clinton's frontal assault on the health-care system failed. The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee today passed health insurances changes that would make it easier for millions of Americans to keep health insurance coverage when they switch jobs or get sick -- one of Clinton's central reform goals. Under the Health Insurance Reform Act, which should reach the Senate floor this fall, no one who continues to pay insurance premiums can be excluded for health reasons or saddled with a new waiting period simply because...
...time, elephants were the villages' chief source of farm labor, and the villages themselves were of strategic value to U.S. forces because they lay on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the Viet Cong supply route...
...village is horrified by the killing because not only is their elephant their only farm labor source, but he is held sacred by village tradition. And it is up to Liotta and Glover to get them...