Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dubrow, an advocate for more than 50 years of laws to improve domestic labor conditions. "She has been influential in numerous causes, including broadening laws against discrimination and protecting American industry from unfair foreign competition," the tribute said...
...Current labor tax laws treat such cost reductions as a taxable benefit. For example, if the enrollment fee for a college course is $4,000, an employee would be taxed on a benefit of $3,600--the difference between the true cost of enrollment and the $400 (or ten percent rate) that Harvard employees actually...
They were the matron of honor and best man at each other's weddings, a pillar in each other's lives and that of the country, dividing the labor of carrying on their father's legacy: Caroline taking the library, John the Kennedy School. But as close as they were, they were also very different. If John was an Adonis, she was pretty in that Irish way, all teeth and wavy hair and good healthy vigor. They both worried about how to have a meaningful life in a fishbowl, but John would lead a life that required he bat away...
...positive mothers face a 30% chance of contracting the virus during delivery. With the inexpensive and commonly used antiviral drug nevirapine, however, only about 13% of newborns become infected. That's better than a short course of costly AZT and requires just one pill for the mother during labor and a few drops for the baby within three days of birth. It should be a boon to the Third World, where mother-infant transmissions keep AIDS rampant...
Merry D. Touborg, the university spokesperson for labor issues, said she had not yet seen a copy of the HUCTW letter and could not comment...