Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Construction costs, except for labor, are fixed, so the only way to cut overall costs is to pay lower wages. Repealing the law would create larger profits for contractors but cut the earnings of their employees. It is the public works equivalent to cutting the minimum wage requirement, a return to days when labor had no government protection against abuse from self-interested employers...
From the Dukakis camp, one hears a mixture of pride in keeping a positive tone, and disappointment that their candidate did not seem willing to return the fire soon enough...
Brendan Mahoney's 67-yd. punt return proved to be the winning touchdown as Dartmouth beat Columbia, 20-10, in Hanover...
...1970s. "Arafat hasn't changed much," says Prager, "despite some bitter years since then. He has an amazing ability to bounce back from defeat and make himself essential to the Palestinian cause." Still eager to talk, Arafat later bumped an aide and a bodyguard from the return flight to Baghdad -- again with the Turkish air force escorting -- to make room for Prager, Gart and photographer Thomas Hartwell. For Gart, the extended interview provided "one of the more memorable experiences" in 40 years of journalism. "It was like being on a magic carpet," he says, "but I wouldn't have wanted...
...says that the points to be resolved before it can have any contact or conversation with the P.L.O. are your acceptance of Resolution 242 ((which says a balance should be found between Israeli claims for secure and defensible borders and the return of territories it occupied during the 1967 war)), Resolution 338 and Israel's right to exist. In your own mind and formally, have you renounced terrorism...