travail
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Gould’s view of the NLRB’s past, present and future is explored in his forthcoming memoir, titled “Those Who Travail and are Heavy Laden: Memoir of a Labor Lawyer.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
“The money exists, and it should be distributed,” said Pascal Morel, the regional head of Confédération Générale du Travail, or CGT, France’s second-largest union, which has been leading the strikes.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
She confirmed herself as one of cinema’s hardcore visionaries with 1999’s Beau Travail, a fragmented, chilling story of the French Foreign Legion, shot in Djibouti and based loosely on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor.
From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018
Two highlights from 2009—Steve Lehman's Travail, Transformation, and Flow and Stefon Harris's Urbanus—each kicked up a big ol' time by embracing avant-classical sounds and hip-hop sensibilities.
From Newsweek • Dec. 10, 2009
Travail jerked his arm back as a thin streamer of smoke and the smell of burning insulation entered the room.
From Made in Tanganyika by Jacobi, Carl Richard
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