Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that threat by tearing up her contract with yet another sweatshop, will her actions have an impact in the grand scheme of workers? rights? Eventually, says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There?s an inexorable trend toward better working conditions in factories abroad. It?s part and parcel of the globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means a considerable upswing in the national...
...power walking across the churchyard with the cameramen jousting and stumbling behind. After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says...
There are two especially significant advantages to these properties. First, the land is back about a mile from the ocean safe from beach erosion and hurricane destruction. Second, these parcels are only a five-minute drive from two ocean beaches. Owners of these parcels become members of an association owning a four-acre parcel on a barrier beach, with 100-footfrontage on a sandy ocean beach, a membership which assures private access to an ocean beach, in perpetuity...
More and more often these days, women are the ones who force a family to decide to move. For Kelly Shillito, 35, district human-resources manager for United Parcel Service, the assistance provided to her husband Michael, 38, in looking for a civil-engineering position made all the difference in their decision to relocate from their native St. Louis, Mo., to her new job in Omaha, Neb. An outside career-counseling firm did a market analysis for him and ultimately recommended engineering companies and headhunters for him to contact. One of these referrals resulted...
...team people who were in Vietnam," said district attorney Dave Thomas, "who were crying and weeping over what they saw." But only on Thursday did officials truly appreciate the level of mayhem the killers had in mind. In the school kitchen, in a duffel bag, they found the sinister parcel containing a propane tank, gasoline can and nails and BBs and glass that would have taken dozens of lives in the busy cafeteria. The killers, Sheriff John Stone said, "were going to destroy the school...