COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Labor Day
labor union
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheap
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Process technology moves around the globe to find the cheapest labor and the friendliest markets.
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In this context, apprentices offer a cheap source of labor .
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They met a decade ago in Zhuhai, a fast-growing southern metropolis whose economy has relied on the cheap migrant labor .
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Ultimately, they were assured of a cheap and exploitable labor force through the constant turnover of young, female employees.
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He proposes unspecified tariffs on imports from Third-World nations that depend on cheap labor .
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The cheap labor was short-lived, however.
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Or is it the availability of cheap foreign labor ?
hard
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The hard labor in shelled pecans had always made her mother call them pure gold.
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The mothers regularly gathered for conversation and hard labor in central laundry rooms.
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Breathing was hard labor now; his fever steadily mounted.
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Then Prospero set Ferdinand to hard labor and made himself invisible so he could observe him.
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He had an air of strength, with the look of a man who was never frightened of hard labor .
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I think life imprisonment with hard labor is really important.
high
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Balancing the two means you sometimes lose an order or live with higher than necessary labor costs.
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Suppose the foreign country has a higher capital / labor ratio.
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As a result, prod-ucts with higher direct labor costs were allocated proportionately more of the overhead cost.
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And that, he added, means higher labor costs.
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Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
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The factor content of its exports consists of a higher capital / labor ratio than the factor content of its imports.
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All these things translate into a high demand for labor .
manual
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Those who reported they did heavy manual labor at work had a 52 percent reduction in risk.
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One effect of this sea change in the way the world works is the diminishing value of manual labor .
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Jack, though he had tended bar in his time, was not required to do manual labor .
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They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor .
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He got manufacturers to streamline processes and develop standard expectations for manual labor .
skilled
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In this regard, it seems to be essential to distinguish between the skilled and unskilled labor markets.
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Scientific wages have already started to respond to what is effectively a new cheap source of very highly skilled labor .
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Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries, snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.
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He needed to attract and retain skilled labor .
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These reformers were joined by powerful forces in the business community who wanted the schools to help train a skilled labor pool.
unskilled
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In this regard, it seems to be essential to distinguish between the skilled and unskilled labor markets.
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The result: a flooded unskilled labor market.
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First, substitution possibilities are not symmetrical between the skilled and the unskilled labor .
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Those empty countries needed both people and unskilled labor .
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The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure.
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The demand for unskilled labor is going down; the pool of unskilled labor is growing...
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Well-paying jobs for unskilled labor are disappearing at an alarming rate.
■ NOUN
camp
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And thousands more were interned in forced labor camps .
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Bao Ge, released in June after three years in a labor camp , was recently allowed to have a passport.
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In the Soviet Union, in 1965, he was sentenced to seven years in a labor camp .
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Runtal lived much of his life in labor camps on private property, but never in Agbayani Village.
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Millions of others died in incredibly harsh conditions in hundreds of labor camps .
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The first was Greenspun's being shipped to a labor camp with her two siblings.
child
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Congress recently acted to deny trade preferences to countries that fail to meet their legal obligations to end such abusive child labor .
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Private social welfare organizations have been campaigning for years to end this most blatant exploitation of child labor .
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He also proposes to toughen civil and criminal penalties for willful child labor violations.
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The Customs Service will receive a stream of tips from child labor groups and will have to check on relatively few sites.
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But the countries say worldwide economic competition makes it difficult to eliminate child labor altogether.
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Maybe the firms exploited women employees or relied on child labor .
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Labor experts and activists say child labor is an outgrowth of profound poverty, entrenched cultural habits and decades of government neglect.
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They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.
costs
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In manufacturing, labor costs have actually fallen.
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But try to balance the problems against the drop in your labor costs .
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And to remain king, he had to watch labor costs .
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Similarly, in one situation, illegal non-capitalist practices -- labor fines -- lower the labor costs of a highly capitalist owner.
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Advantages of computerization to the supermarket operator include reduced labor costs , fewer pricing errors, and better inventory control.
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The airlines will pay as-yet-unspecified labor costs .
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Employees needed to know the wage differential and how that impacted unit labor costs .
dispute
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Shi said a trend to watch is growth in collective labor disputes , which occurred6,567 times in 1998 and involved 251,268 workers.
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It is said that other Presidents without congressional authority have taken possession of private business enterprises in order to settle labor disputes .
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For the moment, union officials are devoting their energies to the labor dispute at Quincy Farms.
force
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Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
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The main competitive advantage of the firm is the relatively low cost of the labor force both for production and design.
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Ultimately, they were assured of a cheap and exploitable labor force through the constant turnover of young, female employees.
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Parents of caretakers, however, would be penalized substantially relative to parents whose children stay in the labor force full time.
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It is estimated that approximately 17 percent of the labor force works less than thirty hours a week.
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In addition to job creation, the plan envisioned improving the quality of the labor force through education and training programs.
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But overall growth in the labor force will be only about as fast as growth in the general population.
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The people who are going to enter the labor force for the next twenty years have already been born.
law
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I wish I had talked to this woman, Mother Teresa, before I had gone into labor law .
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Social Security and federal labor laws being early examples.
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This time the first cause has to do with a new labor law .
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The labor law itself is no routine measure.
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Trends in labor law are moving towards protection of the ill employee.
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So, in 1932, Congress passed the Norris-La Guardia Act, which may be the greatest labor law ever passed.
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But labor law is not set up this way, and it would be very hard in our circuit, we said.
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But weak economic performance, supporters said, is precisely why Kim has pushed so hard to revise the labor law .
lawyer
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I am a labor lawyer , and my heart sinks.
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To me, a labor lawyer , a beating at a union hall is a political act.
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Even a good labor lawyer might not have been much help.
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I was surprised to hear this from a labor lawyer .
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C., a labor lawyer , has been teaching me about corporate campaigns.
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The father of one of the pregnant women was a labor lawyer .
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Another labor lawyer , a friend of mine, sent me a copy.
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As a young labor lawyer , I used to think I could ignore the Teamsters.
leader
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At least two of the labor leaders on hand, however, let loose their rage.
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Another group of labor leaders recognized the inevitability of teams.
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Try to imagine any labor leader today even getting on cable.
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And labor leaders accept the idea.
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He was the first big labor leader to back Jimmy Carter for president in 1976.
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The labor leaders called for a meeting at Haymarket Square on the evening of May 4, 1885.
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His policy is that a labor leader be appointed to every policy-making city board or committee.
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And soon the press began to come around as they had not come around a labor leader in years.
market
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The only problem is that this runs counter to trends in the labor market .
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There were commercial, industrial, and home-economics studies to prepare young people for the labor market .
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The labor market could also pose problems.
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In this regard, it seems to be essential to distinguish between the skilled and unskilled labor markets .
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The result: a flooded unskilled labor market .
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To do this, two peculiarities of the labor market must be remembered.
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During the next three years, thousands of welfare families will be thrust into this low-income labor market because of welfare reform.
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There should be no mistaking where the logic of a totally free, totally integrated world labor market leads.
movement
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In short, the attitudes of both the social elite and the labor movement have served to hinder economic growth.
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The labor movement can bring some sense of economic justice to working families.
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This psychic shift has, of course, been great for company profits and terrible for the labor movement .
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Once people become unemployed, even if they were always good union members, they are out of the labor movement .
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With foresight, the whole labor movement today could have been like the Machinists and the Pilots.
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They for whom the protests of the labor movement had been so important.
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Had this really once been a labor movement ?
pool
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Employers who use immigrant workers for high-tech jobs and others may yet face restrictions on that labor pool .
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These reformers were joined by powerful forces in the business community who wanted the schools to help train a skilled labor pool .
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It is the vast labor pool that global capitalism has tapped into that is the new leviathan.
productivity
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We can also see that labor productivity increased slightly more than land productivity until 1992, then the relationship was reversed.
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In the mid-1980s, labor productivity in the white-collar sector was hardly growing at all.
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Thus, agricultural production can increase as a result of colonization, population growth and improvements in land and labor productivity .
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A dramatically lower savings rate, low growth rates in investment and labor productivity , and stagnating wages are a direct result.
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I expect that only land and labor productivity will be influenced by land reform.
secretary
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Welfare commissioners, labor secretaries , commerce department staffers-all can shift resources into areas of higher productivity and yield.
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He spent 12 years teaching at Harvard before being named labor secretary in 1993.
shortage
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There was concern about creating a labor shortage that would have imperiled the war effort.
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Industries with critical labor shortages launched youth apprenticeships as a way to recruit skilled employees.
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Despite some scattered labor shortages , however, the taut job market has yet to spark significant inflation pressures.
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Moreover, Hilti could see itself plagued by labor shortages far into the future.
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That was certainly the case in Wisconsin, where labor shortages propelled the printing industry into a new relationship with the schools.
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Wages only rise if there are labor shortages .
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Unemployment is so low that spot labor shortages are cropping up around the country.
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Wages go up when there are labor shortages , not when there are labor surpluses.
union
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Some groups, such as the farmers and the labor unions , now gained a greater share in power and its benefits.
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Add to this the fact that in every developed country today, the strongest labor unions are government employees.
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But Selikoff persisted in his campaign against asbestos, aided and abetted by labor unions and environmental groups.
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Its members include major airlines, automakers, labor unions , medical societies, consumer groups and some insurance companies.
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Those employees were entitled to health and welfare benefits under a labor contract between Santa Fe and the labor union .
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No one would trust a documentary series about labor unions paid for entirely by union funds.
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The flight attendants meeting in Sydney this morning have authorized their labor union to take further action.
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The post-job world is also going to force labor unions to redefine what they are and what they do.
■ VERB
do
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Those who reported they did heavy manual labor at work had a 52 percent reduction in risk.
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This time the first cause has to do with a new labor law.
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Jack, though he had tended bar in his time, was not required to do manual labor .
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But did those nasty labor activists have to publicly accuse her of exploiting children to help children?
increase
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For example, improved pregnancy outcome that reduces infant mortality will increase productivity in the labor force in 16 to 25 years.
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Part of Malthus's pessimism stemmed from the conviction that when population increased the price of labor would drop.
organize
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Rejection of fast-track by Congress would be a stunning victory for organized labor and environmentalists, who vigorously opposed the legislation.
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And this was the flagship of organized labor .
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Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.
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If organized labor is going to revive, the experts agree this is the year it must wake up and start stretching.
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And that is exactly what it was-a show of solidarity between the Clinton administration and organized labor .
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There is a lot of downtime in organized labor , waiting for meetings to start.
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The secret world of organized labor .
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And now organized labor began to lumber.
pay
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The airlines will pay as-yet-unspecified labor costs.
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Even adults who are not in the paid labor force may well be working hard.
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In 1987, more than half of mothers of chil-dren under five were in the paid labor force.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Much of Harkin's support comes from organized labor .
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The repairs cost $25 for parts and $60 for labor .