Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only looked at schools that had a lot of archaeology classes. I love being outside. It's sort of like a blue-collar job that you have to be educated for. It combines both worlds--like a construction worker with a degree. It's a hard day's labor, but at the same time learning about people who lived a long time ago and recreating stories about people from literally thousands of years ago. With tiny pieces of evidence, you can recreate the world--the feelings they had and their stories...you can facilitate that with one small fragment...
...continues to rise and unemployment figures fall to record lows, a tight labor market challenges retail store managers who need extra staff to maximize profits from holiday shoppers...
...labor market's fluctuations also have little effect on Prudential Santa Ed Savage, whose holiday post is in demand whether or not stores are strapped...
...making running shoes is undesirable compared with the life of Western workers. But it is infinitely better than the subsistence farming these workers have left behind--and to which they would be forced to return should their supposed friends succeed in stopping trade by imposing Western-style labor and environmental standards that no Third World manufacturer could meet...
...left professes concern for Third World labor. But its real objective is to keep jobs at home. That means stopping the jobs from going to the very campesinos it claims to champion--and sentencing Third World workers to the deprivation of the preindustrial life they so desperately seek to escape. Some champions...