Word: toils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came home from the hospital. "When I think of it now I have to laugh," his father says, "but I also have to believe in God." To free himself for football trips, Al Testaverde has given up his 17-year foreman's job to go back to the cruel toil of grading and finishing cement. "It's worth it," he says. "I want Vinny to * win the Heisman more than he wants to win it; I admit that. If he wins it today, and I drop dead tomorrow, I'm happy...
...notch comedy, tune in to Laverne and Svetlana, which depicts the hilarious mishaps of two clumsy but endearing roommates who toil endlessly in a chemical weapons factory. A classic episode has Laverne turn Svetlana in to the KGB for questioning when she begins to suspect her of sabotage. The program ends with the two reunited, raising clenched fists and singing patriotic songs...
...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...