In the popular consciousness, writers
spend years laboring over their manuscripts, honing their ideas and then struggle to be noticed.
From a writer's perspective, they didn't mess around with a story that
I spent years laboring over.
Not exact matches
Especially if they've
spent the last four or however long
years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that
labor.
The Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports that the average American
spends more than $ 4,000 a
year on food for the home.
A group of companies that
spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high -
labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past
year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.
Based on U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of
Labor Statistics expenditure data, the Food Institute creates a yearly «Demographic of Food
Spending» report, and this year's millennial spending on food away from home is up from 44 percent the year
Spending» report, and this
year's millennial
spending on food away from home is up from 44 percent the year
spending on food away from home is up from 44 percent the
year before.
Adults 65 and older
spend an average of nearly $ 45,000 a
year, according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
Wall Street has
spent more than four
years lobbying against the
Labor rule.
Consumer
spending is up, optimism is high and we have a robust
labor market with unemployment at a 17 -
year low of 4.1 percent.
Given the increase in hourly wages and the
labor income proxy, households may need to pull back on
spending in the first three months of the
year, which increases the risk of a noticeable negative inventory adjustment in the first quarter.
Kids as young as 8
years old, swing machetes high over their heads to hack off cocoa pods, spray lethal pesticide without any protective gear,
spend hours splicing open the pods with knives, with little clue that the end result of their
labor is candy that will go on clearance by February 15th.
Ninety percent of the food - and wood - gathering work in African families is done by women, who
spend 40 billion hours per
year — the equivalent of the entire French workforce's annual
labor — collecting water.
While most Americans
spend their
Labor Day weekend savoring the last moments of summer vacation, political scientists are normally hard at work at their annual association meeting, held this
year in Seattle.
I
spent over a
year trying to get Nadia's birth covered, as my insurance changed thier policy to NOT cover
labor & delivery a week before I found out I was pregnant — without telling me.
We went to get the famous «birthing salad» at Pizza Caioti in Studio City, (that's claimed to induce
labor within 24 - 48 hours), and
spent New
Year's Eve with our dear friends, the Morrisons, who also had their baby just two months earlier at Del Mar..
This class is led by Jill Birt who
spent the last 15
years as a
labor and deliver nurse before stepping in to her roll as our prenatal yoga specialist and teacher.
She
spent seven
years working as a
labor and delivery nurse prior to becoming a nurse practitioner.
The suit, which appears below, makes reference to the Citizens United case decided by the US Supreme Court earlier this
year that enabled corporations and
labor unions to
spend much more freely to influence elections.
The business council has estimated that New York businesses will
spend up to $ 15 billion more per
year in
labor costs once a $ 15 minimum wage is fully implemented.
With legislators pressing Governor Cuomo and the DOT to develop a five -
year program to guide its transportation infrastructure
spending, Exit 122 offers a reminder of why they should avoid hardwiring state projects with project
labor agreements.
The group
spent heavily on ads to support the governor's agenda, particularly in his first
year in office, and acted as a counterweight to the powerful
labor groups who opposed some of Cuomo's policies.
Dell Smitherman
spent years in the rank - and - file of the
labor movement and has shown his talent for mobilizing the power of working people for real change, a welcome addition to Albany.»
Lancman has also
spent years shoring up his support among organized
labor, making sure to be a visible figure on union picket lines over the
years.
It has a budget of $ 135 billion — that's more than the government
spent last
year on the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the
Labor Department combined.
ALBANY — The
labor - backed coalition assisting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to raise the state's minimum wage has
spent $ 1.72 million this
year on advertisements, tele - town halls, rallies and an RV tour that featured state commissioners and the governor himself.
While opposition forces, led by
labor unions, have already begun to
spend sizeable sums of money to encourage a «no» vote, it is unclear how rising populist sentiments indicated in last
year's presidential election — especially through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — may factor in.
Mr. Jeffries is backing Ms. Barron's main rival, 29
year - old Chris Banks, who is running without Ms. Barron's
labor support but
spending far more money.
And McGuire's rant shows that the big
labor unions are pissed, believing that an executive who could otherwise help them (ideologically or individually) will now
spend the next four
years exacting vengeance.
City - funded
spending is projected to increase at an average annual rate of 4.6 percent between Fiscal
Years 2013 and 2018, driven by higher
labor costs and debt service.
The Empire State ranked 49th in taxes, 48th in government
spending and 45th in
labor regulations for fiscal
year 2013, the most recent data studied.
«Rebecca was raised in the
labor movement and
spent years fighting for Teamsters members,» said George Miranda, the president of Teamsters Joint Council 16.
After
spending many
years in a
labor camp in the rural fields of China, he was considered «rehabilitated.»
«If workers strike or are locked out of their jobs during a
labor dispute, a utility might operate just fine, or there could be a major problem,» said Scott, an attorney who
spent 10
years practicing energy and regulatory law before joining the OSU faculty.
According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics 2016 Consumer Expenditure Survey, retired households
spend about $ 44,000 per
year on average.
I
spent some time in Montauk over
Labor Day and it was so crowded (but very fun)-- I'd love to go back around this time of
year and relax!
I'm starting my September list of things to do, and I actually
spent the entire
Labor Day weekend painting some things I had in my house for many
years.
Hossein
labored away as actor / director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then
spent several
years on the «legitimate» stage.
«Perseverance is tied to storytelling more than anything else,» Redford quietly urged the room of almost 200 filmmakers who will
spend the next few days seeing
years of
labor on a big screen.
The
spending bill for the departments of
Labor, HHS, and Education is usually one of the last to be completed before the new fiscal
year starts Oct. 1.
As one of us (Roza has) observed, the best state policies would prevent districts both from «deficit
spending» (which occurs due to pensions and retirement health care) and from obligating out -
year expenditures — such as when they sign a five -
year labor contract although there's ample uncertainty as to what revenues will look like in five
years.
The redshirted individual will ultimately
spend one less
year in the
labor force and forgo the returns of an extra
year of experience throughout his working life.
Which is more likely: that the
labor market has failed to provide the right level of average compensation to almost every occupation, or that workers simply differ in important ways beyond their age and the number of
years they
spent in school?
Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall
spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight
year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.
Consider two hypothetical women: one worked every
year beginning at age 25 and the other worked most
years but
spent seven
years out of the
labor force.
Still, Strauss does an absolutely superb job of introducing the co-chair of the Broader Bolder coalition as «Helen Ladd, the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Duke University who has
spent years researching school accountability, education finance, teacher
labor markets, and school choice.»
As a high - school English teacher with a quarter century of experience, I recognize that it would be selfish folly to expect my students to
spend years discovering what I
labored to learn.
With continuing advances in hardware and software, the boundaries among «learning in school,» learning in other settings,» and «learning on your own» will gradually disappear, with potent implications for time
spent learning, which need no longer be confined to the classroom hours stipulated in the teachers» union (or custodians» union) contract or the 180 - day
year prescribed in state law (and, in some jurisdictions, not allowed to start before
Labor Day).
Black and Hispanic boys whose full academic careers are
spent in these union - dominated schools lose $ 3,650 per
year in income and suffer almost an 8 percent drop in
labor force participation compared to their peers in states without collective bargaining.
As LA Unified continues to lose 12,000 students every
year, administrators will be notified of expected job losses, restrictions could be made on how to
spend one - time funds coming from the state, and
labor partners will be called on to be part of the solution.
Before diving into education advocacy, Josh worked on Capitol Hill where he
spent more than four
years advising his hometown congressman, U.S. Representative Adam Smith (WA - 9), as his legislative assistant on
labor, health, budget, and tax issues.