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  • In a superb cast, the only performer with film experience is Assita Ouedraogo, who plays the laborer's wife.

    'Margin Call': Thrills, Chills of Financial Ills Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • But there was no way of replenishing the laborer's stock of muscle.

    What Life Means to Me 2010

  • Aided by the railroad documents, the brothers and colleagues found the site of the laborer's encampment.

    The Mystery of Duffy's Cut Peter Loftus 2011

  • We should use these programs as a way to educate candidates about our work before they receive laborer's endorsement, so that elected officials have a substantive commitment to supporting our efforts.

    Amy B. Dean: Where Does the Labor Movement Go From Here? Amy B. Dean 2011

  • No longer may they claim the right to run their own business, to beat down the laborer's standard of living for the sake of increased profits, to dictate terms of employment to individual workers, to wax righteously indignant when organized labor takes a hand in their business.

    A REVIEW 2010

  • But the British laborer's policy of Ca 'Canny, which is the very honorable one of giving least for most, and which is likewise the policy of the English capitalist, is nevertheless frowned upon by the English capitalist whose business existence is threatened by the great American Scab.

    THE SCAB 2010

  • This new offering from Chris Weitz drops the viewer into the life of a day laborer's struggles to make "a better life" for his son.

    Marshall Fitz: "Secure Communities" Should Not Undermine A Better Life Marshall Fitz 2011

  • We should use these programs as a way to educate candidates about our work before they receive laborer's endorsement, so that elected officials have a substantive commitment to supporting our efforts.

    Amy B. Dean: Where Does the Labor Movement Go From Here? Amy B. Dean 2011

  • BABY BREAK: A laborer's child slept in a hammock outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which is being constructed for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi Monday.

    Photos of the Day: Aug. 16 2010

  • One of his more expensive cacti had a price of 500 francs, equivalent at the time to a laborer's salary for an entire year.

    Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s 2008

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