Word: toiled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Down the Stretch In the Middle East, thousands of boys from South Asia toil as jockeys in camel races, and their lives are woeful. Following government-imposed bans on jockeys under 16 in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, at least 20 experimental robots will take over the reins this fall. Kamel, a Swiss-built, lightweight, remote-controlled jockey, uses gestures similar to those of a human jockey, even whipping. Price: $5,500 each...
...They toil at a summer's game in sweatshops that are green and airy. The rank-and-filer earns an average of $363,000 a year, not counting shaving-cream endorsements. A major-league baseball player is hardly your typical working stiff...
...worker is $A49,000 a year. In China, it's $A2,500 a year. Add the cost of shipping and other things, and we can employ 15 people in China for the cost of one Australian worker." Factoring in longer work hours and leave, the Chinese worker will also toil for 100 days a year longer than his Australian counterpart. Then there's the cost of components. Some companies can now land inputs from China at the price they used to pay for the raw materials. A few years ago, GUD closed the remaining Sunbeam plant in Sydney. Sunbeam products...
...From,” features Precious, an impoverished woman in an anonymous third-world nation. (The odd name was chosen by Precious’s mother as a consistent and much-needed reminder that her love for her sons extended to her daughter.) Precious carries a child for three toil-filled years through many attempts to cross the border into the States, in order to produce the “nice big American baby” of the title...
...breakfast together, citizen. She is hitching the light up for your asinine patio party, your old starlight teevee movies, your electric toothbrush, vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds...