Word: toils
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...involved in the latest incidents include many who have missed out, for whatever reason, on Australia's 15-year economic resurgence. As working life has been transformed in most developed nations, men who toil with their hands have seen their jobs disappear, or have been replaced in the economy by women with superior social and learning skills. The girls are going to university, the guys are going to the beach or McDonald's. And while they wait for something, anything, to happen to them, why not have some sport? But this time they're playing with fire: committing crimes, fanning...
...coming generation of comics craftsmen needn't toil in the dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...
...central N.S.W., Estens can trace his bloodlines back several centuries to both the Protestant Huguenots and the father of English empiricism, John Locke. Estens' Dreaming is the Enlightenment and the rich earth of the Moree plains - liberty and equality, with a dash of Aussie bush can-do and toil. He started the AES with the idea of providing skilled labor for the cotton industry; that modest venture seemed to lift the town and as the institutions surrounding job placement changed under the Howard government, the innovator started to work the system. As supportive elders held off the "radical and ratbag...
...Truman took the presidential oath of office on April 12, 1945. It was an extra 13 days before he received his first substantial briefing on the U.S. effort to develop an atomic weapon--a process fast approaching its climactic stage after more than three years of colossal expense, toil and urgency. Neither Secretary of War Henry Stimson nor Leslie Groves, overseer of the vast atomic project, was in a particular hurry to get the new President's ear because they knew that all the important choices about the Bomb had already been settled. Their conversation with the President on April...
...scheme of Rocky IV is numbingly familiar. Our hero is discovered at his ease, enjoying the sweet rewards of his pugilistic toil, no clouds on his scar tissue. There then lumbers into sight a giant threat not just to his well-being but to all that he--we--holds dear. Yes, literally a giant. Replacing Mr. T in this thankless role is a humongous Soviet called Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Behind this wild bull of the steppes, a totalitarian state has mobilized all its technological wizardry (including, it is hinted, steroids) in order to claim not merely a world championship...