Of the 15 features I managed to see over the long Labor Day weekend, two other films made strong impressions.
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Despite pressures on attendance and sponsorships in recent years, the sports industry can bank on the resiliency of television money and labor peace (the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball recently signed long term labor deals) to provide a steady backbone throughout the industry, Fitch thinks.
As long as labor markets stay strong, consumers will have the means to pay down their debts, limiting loan losses, Barclays Capital said in a report this week.
One reason it had the market to itself for so long was that indexing was extremely labor-intensive -- so much so that someone long ago suggested that convict labor be used to keep down costs.
Fans, now long accustomed to labor disputes, always come back, no matter how much they vow to stay away.
Strangely absent from the list of issues being hashed out by NFL Owners and Players in this long-running labor dispute is perhaps the most important issue of all: revenue sharing among Owners.
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One reason for the turnaround is that local governments have ramped up the tax incentives to get companies to move to or stay on Long Island, said Shital Patel, a state labor market analyst who studies Long Island.
His long support for the labor movement may help make some of the harsh decisions more palatable to workers.
But what if they could get the benefits of outsourcing--cheap labor and long working days--without having to make the trip to Bangalore?
Larger business organizations, disrupted supply chains, new competition, additional investment opportunities, and even the internationalization of labor have long been familiar business issues.
"As long as the invisible labor is borne by women, things aren't going to be equal, even if surveys show they are, " Smock says.
In spite of an announcement before the Labor Day long weekend that the company was bringing back 79-year old consummate car design man Bob Lutz as a consultant, prospects will track the economy more than fashion.
The American housewife of postwar suburban fantasy, who had been expected to love her hours of kitchen labor as long as her fridge was the color of a lemon or an avocado and, as Wilson says, matched her cabinets, now had the time and curiosity to guess what!
The White House has long been hopeful that the labor movement get on board.
In the long-term, a labor shortage is good news for the Chinese economy, as it will induce Chinese companies to innovate.
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Put another way, are the Greens cashing in on Labor's long-term decline?
Some of the engineers have been around a long time, continuing to labor, mostly unsung, on advances that better position Lenovo in its chosen markets.
Indirectly, the same is true in the labor markets: long-term unemployment benefits can be seen as an attempt to put off adjustments of wage levels.
They found that customers actually prefer websites that require waiting as long as they demonstrate their labor, like a tally or progress bar. (Think: the way Kayak displays a continually changing list airline sites being searched).
Although the Patriots and Brady were able to find a way, Colts President Bill Polian has long found shelter in the labor uncertainty for the future and the lack of a CBA by which to structure a deal.
Best Buy is trying to improve its website by enhancing its online product descriptions and selection, but it faces higher operating costs than its online-only competitors due to the high labor costs and long-term leases of its more than 1, 400 stores.
Last December Ms Gillard's ruling Labor party overturned its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India.
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Nor is it simply an argument over depressed American wages versus the long-term productivity of American labor.
Toss in a long-running battle between organized labor and a major telecommunications giant.
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Don't expect to see any real economic improvement or any good news in the labor market for a long time.
The Labor Department's long-awaited rules will require that mutual-fund firms and other 401(k) administrators disclose to employers details about the fees they are charging to run the plans.
The labor unrest had left many analysts forecasting a smaller-than-expected market surplus for platinum this year, with some saying the market could even become balanced if the labor disruptions lasted for long enough.
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If you find the above totally unconvincing, just remember that in the long run, the supply of labor is just as important in determining the level of domestic employment as the demand for labor.
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China comes up long on workers who need jobs so labor costs are extraordinarily low.
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