Word: labors
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...carpal tunnel from a computer." However, hand surgeon Dr. Morton L. Kasdan says that will be a difficult thing to prove. He says that there has never been a study that conclusively proves that carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by the use of a keyboard. U.S. Labor Department figures show that the number of reportedrepetitive stress injurieshas more than doubled from 1989 to 1993. Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against computer manufacturers...
Laurel Ulrich, who teaches colonial and women's history, and Andrew Gordon '75, a Japanese labor history specialist, have also been tenured this year...
Pointing to studies by the Labor Department andthe Urban Institute, Jackson said that white malescomprise 33 percent of the country's populationbut 80 percent of its tenured professors and over90 percent of its U.S. Senators and Fortune 500company executives...
...Even with the accommodations made by theadministration, there are a lot more labor hoursinvolved with going to other libraries toresearch," he said...
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dolemay block a vote onDr. Henry Foster's nomination for surgeon general. On a Sunday broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," Dole said that he's not sure the nomination will even get out of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, and "If it does, I'm not certain that I'll call it up."TIME Washington correspondent Michael Duffysays that while Dole certainly could block Foster's nomination, his comments are really more about establishing his credentials with conservatives than with a concern about Foster. "The nomination probably won't even...