Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reforms that should make life easier. The average minimum wage has been raised from $317 to $336 monthly, a change that benefits women primarily. Salaries have improved for some lower-paid professionals, among them teachers and doctors, who are mostly women. Moreover, many factories have added on-site banks, shoe-repair shops and even commissaries from which weekly food packages can be ordered...
...other shoe had to drop sooner or later. For five years, atmospheric scientists have known that a 3,000-mile hole in the ozone layer develops over Antarctica during the southern spring. The phenomenon is dramatic evidence of ozone loss in the upper atmosphere, caused largely by man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, which could leave the earth more vulnerable to cancer-inducing rays from the sun. Now, it seems, there is mounting evidence that the Arctic has its own ozone hole, albeit a smaller one. At the American Geophysical Union meeting last week in Baltimore, W.F.J. Evans, an atmospheric physicist...
During a long conversation over lunch, Kampelman said to Karpov, "Look, Victor, I don't know if you know what 'wiggle room' means." He pointed to his shoe. "It means room for the toe to move around in. At this moment I have no wiggle room. None. That's because you're handling these negotiations badly. You are desperately eager to have us show you wiggle room ((on SDI)), but I can't do it. I don't even want to ask for it back in Washington. However, if you can come up with significant reductions -- not promises, but realities...
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...White House has angered Congress on several occasions by turning down pleas for import relief, most notably from the shoe industry. Many Democrats, and a few Republicans as well, are pushing for provisions in the trade bill that would force the Administration to retaliate automatically against unfair foreign traders. The President, though, has vowed to veto any bill that would take away his discretion on when to impose trade sanctions. The conflict has left the Democrats with a dilemma. Explains Rostenkowski: "We need a bill so tough that our trading partners can't ignore it, but so fair that...