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...legal profession, especially the expanding megafirms that compete with Cravath for a relatively stable pool of top graduates. In recent weeks a ripple effect has pushed up salaries at major firms across the country. All of this is good news for young associates, the entry-level lawyers who toil for five to nine years in the hope of joining the full partners, who split a firm's profits. But as the new lawyers are just now discovering, this silver lining comes with a cloud. At the big firms that pay those high salaries, associates commonly work at uninspiring tasks, poring...
...largest black labor union is the National Union of Mineworkers, whose 150,000 members toil in the vital gold and diamond mines, which provide more than half the country's foreign-exchange earnings. An additional 50 smaller ; black labor groups represent everyone from waiters and metalworkers to supermarket cashiers. Individual unions are grouped into labor federations, the largest of which is COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, with 500,000 members...
...Still, many industry watchers are taken aback. Quipped Carol Neves, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, to the New York Times: "It's difficult to comprehend an ITT without a telecommunications operation. I asked them what the T's would stand for in their name, and they said, 'toil and trouble...
...corridors and committee rooms of Congress. Though the legislation will probably not pass this term, Scheuer, who has five no-smoking signs (one in four languages) in his office, is determined to keep trying. "There are many federal workers, including myself, who are sick and tired of having to toil in the thick veil of hazy and noxious smoke," he declares...
...athletes are an interesting breed. They're willng to toil in obscurity while their varsity brethren grab headlines and glory. This team is no different. It plays for no publicity at all. "When the season started, I told these guys `We're not playing for the Boston Herald,''' coach Steve Bzomowski said...