Word: sweatshops
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...President moves through the West Wing past his staff offices, then down the back stairs and into the basement. Secret Service men and White House policemen stir. Nixon stops to say a few words to Henry Kissinger's staff in the corner basement office. "How's everyone in the sweatshop? Is he still working you hard...
...researchers produce certainly save more lives. But they also gobble more dollars in the process. And the other major component of the hospital cost increase--higher wages for cooks, janitors, and the other prosaic workers who help care for the patients -- helped solve another obvious social need. The semi-sweatshop laber practices of the 1950's hospitals had to end; unfortunately, ending them meant hiking hospital charges another step...
...Francisco's Chinatown has always displayed a pungent blend of yang and yin. Those intertwined opposites-good and evil, sweet and sour, light and dark-describe not only Chinese philosophy but also the inner contradictions of a district whose neon signs and tourist bustle mask a swarming, sweatshop world of long hours, low pay, hard work and fear. For all its outward ambiance, the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia is one of America's most wretched slums...
...Newcomers have a hard time here for the first ten years, but after that you have a nice car and a nice home and can educate your children, so you don't care." Claiming that higher union wages are not practical in so cutthroat an economic situation, a sweatshop spokesman warned: "You may wipe out an industry with a $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 yearly payroll." Nevertheless, Chinatown residents feel increasingly that the long and patient wait for affluence may be in keeping with Mao-think, but not with life...
...that the Italian government unfairly aids manufacturers by allowing quick write-offs on their automated machinery and by handing back more in export rebates than it takes out in turnover taxes. France, when the Italians suddenly grabbed 221% of its refrigerator market in 1962, complained that Italy was exploiting sweatshop labor. It thus won Common Market permission to impose a "compensatory" tax on such imports while French industry modernized to meet the competition. After the tax was repealed, the French tried raising import duties and imposing inordinately rigid border inspections in vain efforts to stem the appliance flow. Now. France...