• Hard labor at low pay over a lifetime takes its toll on a person.

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  • The man, John William Yettaw, was sentenced to seven years of hard labor.

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  • Acting out in some way that would see light treatment in civilian life could trigger a loss of rank, freedom, and hard labor.

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  • This time, Knowlton was sentenced to three months of hard labor.

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  • The reward for four days' hard labor was inside information.

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  • Human beings as we know them are excited by every development in their offspring, because what purpose is there for the hard labor of parenthood if not to send forth an independent, productive adult who can satisfy his own needs?

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  • Cured in marble basins with salt to draw out water and protect against bacterial growth (herbs such as anise were added for flavor), they were put on bread and eaten as a rich source of energy for a day of hard labor.

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  • But, you might be surprised to learn what some women endured to win the vote, including being rounded into the Occoquan Workhouse for 60 days of hard labor, forced feeding, instrumental invasion of the body and in the case of Lucy Burns, imprisoned for her stance on suffrage and having her hands chained to the cell bars above her heads and left over night repeatedly.

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  • Today, because of that hope, coupled with the hard and painstaking labor of Americans sung and unsung, we live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach for people of every color and creed.

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  • Income from labor is hard to hide and easy to tax, as the middle class knows full well.

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  • Even assuming gains for the UMP in June, Sarkozy could face a hard slog dismantling entrenched labor protections -- such as five weeks of guaranteed vacation -- that unions have fought tooth-and-nail to keep.

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  • Instead transcending capitalism requires a critical mass of people who have experienced- not the change of mind that our business schools labor so hard to produce- but the change of heart that we usually associate with a spiritual experience.

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  • Some academic researchers say it is hard to quantify an actual labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, in part because there is so little evidence of a decline in production.

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  • It really represents time and labor, and those are hard to visualize.

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  • But Clinton may not understand a second apparent objective: to use U.S. policy under Clinton in a way that would undermine Rabin and his moderate Labor Party while elevating the hard nosed Likud.

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  • On net, it is hard to see how health reform will make labor markets function better.

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  • It's hard and dirty work, and in the labor hierarchy of oil rigs, roustabouts are a notch below roughnecks.

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  • Now, a lot of the outsourcing that was referred to in the question really has to do with the fact that our economy -- if it's dependent on low-wage, low-skill labor, it's very hard to hang on to those jobs because there's always a country out there that pays lower wages than the U.S. And so we've got to go after the high-skill, high-wage jobs of the future.

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  • Similarly, the specter of Labor Day has some forecasters predicting a hard landing for the U.S. economy.

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  • Nike learned the hard way and was criticized for some of the labor practices in its supply chain.

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  • The Labor Department said it was "working hard to ensure the timely release" of Friday's closely watched October employment report, after it earlier said it wouldn't assess how to handle reports until after the inclement weather had passed.

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  • In Michigan, where unemployment is highest in the country, at 8.5% in May according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it's been especially hard to break up.

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  • As a labor leader, however, I would have a hard time crossing any picket line, even a virtual one.

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  • Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing.

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  • "It's hard to think of people that make that much money as labor heroes, but they're really betting the farm, " he says of the show-runners' decision to break studio contracts and walk off the job.

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  • The numbers are hard to estimate, but between direct hiring, hiring through labor contractors, and off-the-books work beside parents or for cash, perhaps 400, 000 children, some as young as 6, weed and harvest for commercial farms.

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  • "I have expected that, over the years, people would start to recognize the athletes work very hard and it's kind of an unstable, unpaid labor force, and you would start to see those numbers creep up a little bit more, " Strudler said.

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  • With national unemployment already at 6.1%, a reduction in the potential labor force might provide some relief to communities hit particularly hard by the downturn.

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  • Kingfisher will likely have a hard time recovering this market share due to its much publicized and heated labor dispute, and its overall reduction in customer service to passengers.

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  • For example, Folbre notes that men constitute more than 71% of the workforce in manufacturing (which was hit hard in the recession, and also hit with outsourcing to lower cost labor countries, increased automation, and increased foreign trade) and they make up less than 25% of the workers in health and education services (where jobs have risen slowly, but steadily).

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