Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More likely, Podhoretz fixation is simply a complication arising from Navasky wags-slave syndrome, a disease Trillin has exhibited for years. Trillin has constantly jibed Victor S. Navasky, the editor of The Nation, for underpaying his staffers. One wonders how the Commentary pay scale compares Whatever the case, Navasky syndrome is more prevalent than ever in With All Disrespect...
Fortunately today's Yardlings have their own dormitories, thus minimizing the threat of slave labor...
This is a city that holds 30,000 conferences a year, on the tsetse fly, on slave labor, on trade tariffs, on the future of the Australian wombat. Conferences are supposed to begin and end punctually, and then the delegates depart to make room for the next set of delegates. That is the system, and the motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin is "Dominus providebit" (The Lord will provide). This week the $100-a-day hotels are filling up with visitors to the world's biggest auto show, which is being held at the new Palexpo exhibition hall. Next...
...Mola Ogundipe-Leslie, a professor of English at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria: "It would seem that I am arguing that men are the enemy. No, men are not the enemy. The enemy is the total societal system, which is a jumble of neocolonial and feudalistic, even slave-holding, structures and social attitudes. As women's liberation is but an aspect of the need to liberate the total society from dehumanization, it is the social system that must change...
...Europe, complain bitterly that Japan does not buy enough of their products. The Japanese piled up trade surpluses last year of about $1.7 billion with Thailand and $6 billion with Singapore. Student protesters in Thailand have circulated letters to their countrymen with a blunt warning: "Do not be a slave to Japanese goods." In his August speech, Malaysia's Mahathir noted that 84% of his nation's exports to Japan consisted of oil, wood, tin and other raw materials. Said he: "We cannot and will not remain merely hewers of wood and drawers of water." Japanese businessmen and farmers press...