Word: travaillent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decaying labs and desperately low salaries have made hiring another FDA travail. Some important drug-review posts have an annual turnover rate of 20%. At least one former FDA official believes many new employees use their stint at the agency to bolster resumes that are then quickly circulated to industry...
...pretty much used to being wired by now. The real travail is in the actual use of our phones. When the phone rings, nobody knows what...
...word travel, Bruce Chatwin reminded an interviewer in a recent issue of the British literary journal Granta, is related to the French travail. "It means hard work, penance and finally a journey," he explained, noting, "There was an idea, particularly in the Middle Ages, that by going on pilgrimage, as Muslim pilgrims do, you were reinstating the original condition of man. The act of walking through a wilderness was thought to bring you back...
...week's end maritime workers and the government reached a provisional accord containing concessions for the strikers. The rail strike continued unabated, however, and France's largest labor group, the Confederation Generale du Travail, called for stoppages in public utilities and Paris bus and Metro service to support demands for higher wages and work-rule changes. The deepening confrontation came just weeks after Premier Jacques Chirac bowed to student protesters in December by withdrawing plans to reform France's universities...
...that date, the pathway down Quad Ravine--the three-foot-deep gulley crafted down the middle of the quad to allow trucks and workmen into the hole and the mountain--will become a treacherous travail through ice and snow. One can only wonder at the number of additional people on crutches due to the new alleyway...