Word: laboredness
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Every day Fayez Zeidan, 36, wanders around Bethlehem looking for work. He seldom finds it. Before the intifadeh, which began in September 2000, he was a construction worker in Israel and labored side by side with Israelis. "In those days the mutual confidence was so great," he says. "We used...
Although Liaoyang and Daqing provide the most dramatic examples of organizing, workers in Zhengzhou over the past two years built a network of activists that succeeded, for a while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang...
The awkwardness is particularly acute for Tony Blair, who since Sept. 11 has made a point of backing Bush at every opportunity. The transatlantic bridge he has labored to build and bestride has become too wobbly to bear his weight gracefully. A former aide to Bill Clinton says that Blair...
And that's just the problem with the Palais de Tokyo's approach: it's fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three...
We're not going to have to tear up the speech, are we?" George W. Bush asked late last week, as his aides labored over the text of Tuesday night's State of the Union address. Bush was gently mocking the endless process--and perhaps acknowledging how many reasons there...