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  • An emotional Ling practically referred to the former president as a messiah, describing to the media and well-wishers waiting at the airport how she and Lee thought they were being sent to a hard-labor camp, only to walk through a door to find Clinton.

    Analysis: Bill Clinton as a diplomatic fix-it man 2009

  • Kaye covers the transition of Hazleton, a small Pennsylvania coal town that, with the explosion of industry became the eighth fastest-growing Hispanic population in the U.S., and then moves through the marketplaces, politics, smuggling, the importing of professionals as well as hard-labor migrants, and the role of labor unions -- all in one chapter.

    Geri Spieler: Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration 2010

  • Kaye covers the transition of Hazleton, a small Pennsylvania coal town that, with the explosion of industry became the eighth fastest-growing Hispanic population in the U.S., and then moves through the marketplaces, politics, smuggling, the importing of professionals as well as hard-labor migrants, and the role of labor unions -- all in one chapter.

    Geri Spieler: Moving Millions : How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration 2010

  • One is that they do go to some Stalin-like gulag that has gross human rights abuses and are at a hard-labor camp.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2009 2009

  • We have got the very latest as she is about to begin a 12-year hard-labor sentence in a North Korean prison.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2009 2009

  • Mr. Yettaw was sentenced to seven years in prison and four years of hard-labor this week after swimming across a lake to visit Ms. Suu Kyi at her villa in May.

    Activists Warn Senator Against Meeting With Myanmar Junta 2009

  • As convenience melted imperceptibly into inanity, the very concept of housework slipped free of its hard-labor connotations and drifted into the ethereal realm of "homemaking."

    Household Appliances 2008

  • Mike was a strict, hard-labor kind of guy, but I remember the really nice things.

    This is Gonna Hurt Tito Ortiz with Marc Shapiro 2008

  • Mike was a strict, hard-labor kind of guy, but I remember the really nice things.

    This is Gonna Hurt Tito Ortiz with Marc Shapiro 2008

  • He first came under scrutiny during the Cultural Revolution, when he spent six years being "re-educated" in a hard-labor camp and ended up burning reams of his writing.

    A First For China 2008

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