Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...migrant lives in a capricious world-the work routine is uncertain, there is no protection for periods when work is unavailable, and time off is unpredictable. Migrants are isolated from the outside residential community, and from other migrants with whom they must compete for work. Paradoxically, their daily physical setting offers no real privacy. The "average" migrant family has 6.2 members, lives in 1.9 rooms, and earns $2179 a year, under conditions like the following...
...Labor Party of Premier Rabin was reeling from the latest in a series of scandals; Asher Yadlin, a former high-ranking Labor Party member, had just pleaded guilty to kickback charges and allowed that the money he received had gone into the party's coffers. Rabin was uncertain of his tenure in office. Not only is he facing a strong challenge from opposition parties in the national elections scheduled for May 17, but he may not even be Labor's standardbearer. There is a possibility that this week's Labor Party convention will dump Rabin and nominate...
Onstage she seems small and uncertain, a little girl dressed up. She clutches the microphone to her face ("There you go, baby, here am I"). The mike is a sponge-covered apple on a stick ("Well you left me here so I could sit and cry"). Her lips, stretched wide, quiver so close to its surface that if she were to bring her jaws together she would bite circuitry. Will Eve ("Golly, gee, what have you done to me?") bite the apple? ("Well I guess it doesn't matter any more...
...takes a small step toward decontrol by allowing the gas that is being reallocated to the East to rise to a price of $2.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., an increase that will be in effect until July 31. Whether Carter will move toward further deregulation after that is uncertain. Such a move would be opposed by liberal Democrats on the Hill, who argue that removing the ceilings increases the prices paid by consumers...
...popping open a 10 a.m. beer with the local priest and a couple of the town aldermen, I reluctantly boarded the reconverted, Prohibition era rum-runner the local ferry monopoly had provided to shuttle us off to safety for a mere $1.75 apiece. My friends I left to their uncertain fate...