Word: slaving
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...some observers such tactics smack of price-fixing, market discrimination and possible violation of antitrust law: if the player does not like the U.S. team negotiating the deal, his only recourse is to stay in Japan for another year. Nomo's American-based agent Don Nomura called it a "slave auction." The union, true to form, failed to file suit. Explained Toru Matsubara, secretary-general of the Japanese Baseball Players Association: "Trials last forever here." Japan was free to sell off its best talent. And there was little the fan could do. As a disgusted Tamaki creatively...
Assigning payments for reparations would have been far easier within the first generations after the Civil War. At that time, the victims and perpetrators of brutality would have been easily identified, much like the case of those forced to work as slave-labor for the Nazi regime during World War II, and reparations could have been paid directly to the victims or to their immediate survivors. But 136 years after the end of American slavery, no such direct payment is possible. Many Americans are descended from immigrants who came to the country after the Civil War; many families...
...issue of slave reparations got quite a few of you mad. Among the rejoinders we can print is one from a Las Vegas reader who told us that "slavery was a grave crime, but people who aren't responsible for what happened owe nothing to people it didn't happen to. It's a fact, pure and simple, that no living African American has ever been the slave of a living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were...
...little paradoxical, then, that what seems to carry this album, tying it together and giving it its individuality, is Brian Molko’s voice. The album’s songs are its singles, “Special K” and “Slave to the Wage,” which highlight the band’s aggressivity. The opening track, “Taste in Men,” somewhat prefigures the rest of the album with its comment, “Change your style again/Change your taste in men.” While this...
...attorneys are expected to focus not only on suing the government, but may also go after corporations which profited from the slave trade, according to an anonymous source quoted in Friday's Boston Globe...