Word: labors
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...being made right now that it would no longer be being made in,” he said. “It would be possible that those jobs would disappear, and we have a concern for the local workers in that case,” he went on.Harvard Student Labor Action Movement leader Jamila R. Martin ’07 questioned the University’s commitment to the consortium’s mission. “It was basically signing on without really signing on,” she said of the school’s 2003 move.Responding...
...think their parents are doing less to help them in school, not more (in such things as attending PTA meetings and helping out with homework). Nor is every teenager spoiled or lazy; nearly a third of 16-year-olds have jobs while in school, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly a third of them volunteer, about one hour a week. Meanwhile, the odds of getting into college are far better than the panic portrays. Only 2% of students apply to 12 or more colleges, and only 150 of the nation's 3,500 colleges are so selective that...
...variability, so you have to be vigilant about quality control," says Cotton. The company's vice president of R&D, Bill Gillum, rolls his eyes. "Variability is a good word for it," he says. Fixing the never ending problems takes ingenuity and typically a lot of labor. But that's the trade-off that comes from working with trash. No one said it wouldn't be messy...
...compared with more than 100 in 1994, the year Republicans swept to power with a 54-seat pickup in the House. Then there's what political pros call the ground game. For most of the 20th century, turning out voters on Election Day was the Democrats' strength. They had labor unions to supply workers for campaigns, make sure their voters had time off from their jobs to go to the polls and provide rides to get them there...
Organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the Harvard Institute for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), about 30 protestors marched from Harvard Yard to Allston, shouting slogans along the way that criticized the military for its conduct in Iraq and its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy which prohibits gay individuals from serving openly...