Among other things, it calls on monks to be self-sufficient through their own labor.

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Of note, a third at the top owe the bulk of their fortunes to their spouses or family rather than through the fruits of their own labor.

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However, a less benign possibility is that tight product markets might allow firms to pass some or all of their higher labor costs through to prices.

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Depressed labor markets continue their ride through limbo, as initial claims for unemployment insurance came in at 400, 000 for the week ending July 30, just below expectations of 405, 000.

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"At Berga, captured soldiers were forced to endure inhumane conditions and suffer from the Nazi policy of physical destruction through labor, " Baca and Bachus said in their letter to Geren.

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The infant industry argument will complain that, in such cases, if the businesses involved were just given extra profits through tariffing their foreign competition, they could pay for the labor necessary to create the infrastructure that would allow them to compete naturally without the tariff.

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"Companies are going to have to get creative to find ways to compensate their employees, " if such a measure gets through, says James Sherk, a labor policy expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, D.

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Their spending on new hardware will focus on lowering operating costs through greater efficiencies in the use of labor and energy.

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After multiple trips through bankruptcy court, abrogation and renegotiating for favorable labor contracts, and subsequent mergers, the major airlines are in their strongest position in history.

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