Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Those laid off from manufacturing jobs face even harder struggles in an age of weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
Most Coveted Low-Paying Job At least 27,000 Muscovites decided they deserved a break today and applied for 605 positions at the new Moscow branch of McDonald's. The company tutored its Soviet employees on how to render in Russian such McLingo as "You want fries with that...
...America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that's not any of our business.' There's a parallel there for what some feel about the Persian Gulf today: let somebody else figure this out. And it's my view that nobody can, except the United States...
...cooperation and markets. Our economy was based on specific trading patterns within Comecon. Hundreds of enterprises were working to produce goods for the Soviet economy, goods the West would not buy because of quality or other factors. We could not switch overnight, and we still cannot do it today. Imagine the scenario had the opposition ((Solidarity)) taken over in the autumn of 1981 and inherited such an economic situation on the eve of winter, when there were already serious shortages in the marketplace. It would have been a catastrophe and may have even made impossible all the changes that have...
...survival itself chews up enormous time. It's so absolutely fatiguing. You spend so much time and energy trying to avoid mistakes. One of us rephrased an old saying that we put at the top of our written rules: "Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow will come if we survive today...