Word: menials
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...irony to which Van Peebles refers is the circumstance surrounding his expatriation to France. He initially endeavored to launch his cinematic career in the Hollywood system, but the only positions available for African-Americans were menial...
...menial task that most would dread quickly turned into a bonding opportunity as the BMF board members, clad in identical club T-shirts, bumped shoulders with the pre-frosh, swapping stories and laughs...
...portraits of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il and his father, the late Kim Il Sung, hanging on their homes' walls. But life was grim, and after two sons fled to South Korea in 1997, she followed three years later. Since her arrival, Yoo has drifted through a string of menial, low-paying jobs. Now working as a cleaning woman, she is able to make ends meet with a small temporary stipend from a local government office. "Defectors have nowhere to turn in South Korea," she laments. "Nobody is willing to listen...
...only black writer in the BBC's recent poll of Britain's 100 favorite books - was a simple, profoundly disconcerting, plot twist. In Sephy and Callum's world, it's the black people, (known as crosses), who have the power, money and education, while whites (the noughts) have menial jobs, few rights and even fewer opportunities. Blacks routinely diss whites as "blankers" and are known as "daggers" in return. It's a way of life that most crosses want to defend; the noughts are itching for change and some are willing to kill...
...surface, Bush’s proposal seems to offer the America’s constantly-growing population of illegal immigrants the fair shake they deserve by making eight million of them legal temporary workers. No more would these people—many of whom have held low-paying menial jobs for years—contribute to America’s service economy without reaping its benefits. Those who work in the United States should never have to avoid hospitals or jobs with reasonable safety controls for fear of being deported...