Word: labors
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...getting crowded in the kitchen, the locus of australian political sloganeering. For most of the year, Labor leader Kim Beazley has been claiming his party's slant and policies are informed by the concerns of middle Australia-not the fripperies of abc Radio National listeners or Sydney's droning talk shops. Beazley's relentless message is that Labor is focused on the "kitchen table" issues that preoccupy families. Such as? Interest rates, petrol prices, schools, job security and Iraq. And because McMansions have formal dining rooms, and maybe because wine is so cheap, our dinner-party talk now extends...
...some respects and quite different in others. It was similar in the sense that there was a widespread concern among American workers and people who sympathize with American workers. The volume [of immigration] in 1915 was unprecedented and had been running high for some years. The concern about labor markets and the impact on the American worker was very strong - and it's still strong. There was considerable concern about community standards and crowding in the street. There was some concern about crime. There are two differences that I think deserve to be put in front. The concern about population...
...where is all the money coming from to buy, and do we have enough of it? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, we earned average after-tax incomes of about $22,000 per person in 2004 and spent about $17,000 per person. That means Americans save very little of what they earn and end up paying for much of what they buy on credit. "Credit cards have allowed a whole different way of buying," says Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "People are saving a lot less and spending...
...film The Passion of the Christ was viewed by 44.3% of those polled, but the book The Da Vinci Code, was read by only 28.5%. This may not reflect religious piety (The Passion is very pious, The Code quite skeptical) so much as it does the labor of reading. The Left Behind books, very pious and very popular also, only reached...
...people sell their kidneys when they are poor. We deplore child labor, fight any temptation to treat children as commodities. But if a father is thrilled that his son gets a better chance, is that his right? Parents have forever sent their children away in hopes of a better life, sent their Moses afloat in a basket down the river to be found, if God smiles, by Pharoah's daughter. Moral instinct tells us that a father's love counts for something; taking a baby away to be raised even in a splendor does violence to the bonds that define...