One of the children's father called 911 -- and an army of rescue workers massed at the mouth of the deep pit.
One difference, says Mr Phillips, is that the previous economic boom sucked in a reserve army of women workers.
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Government officials have also said the company will bear the cost of the army of rescue workers and drilling teams being flown in from around the world.
Although unemployment is low, rapid job losses among Japan's army of temporary workers are exposing the unfairness of a two-tier labour market and straining an egalitarian society.
Relief agencies say authorities in Myanmar have been slow to issue visas to a small army of relief workers gathered in Thailand who are poised to fight a tide of hunger and disease.
Over the past decade, our work in Haiti expanded rapidly whenever we followed these principles: Over the past two years what was in 1985 a tiny clinic served, through the public sector and with the help of an army of community health workers, millions of Haitians.
Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.
With plenty of money to go round, Gulf Arabs have grown accustomed to lavish social security, subsidised utilities, and an inexhaustible army of Asian expatriate workers to do the menial jobs for them.
It's one thing to have a national vaccination campaign--easily enough done--but quite another to rebuild public infrastructure, offer care for maladies ranging from AIDS to obstructed labor (which requires, of course, a Cesarean section, which in turn requires electricity and an operating room and someone who can perform the procedure), and to recruit and train that army of community health workers.
"The growing army of laid-off workers demands an expansion of the private economy, " says Zhong Pengrong, director of the Beijing Prospect Consultancy, an advocate of private enterprise.
Thousands of Pentagon workers -- including the chiefs of the Army and Navy -- have been relocated to temporary offices.
Rescue operations are in progress and at least six people have been taken out of the debris by army and fire workers.
Members of the army, navy and air force lined the procession route, with office workers hanging out windows in some places.
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There were reports that army-led rescue workers had difficulty accessing the disaster area and were hampered by a lack of equipment.
In what has come to be known as the Pachang Creek incident, four workers were swept away by raging torrents of river water in late July while rescuers from the army and police argued over who had the proper jurisdiction.
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