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The U.S. may have embraced remote work more than other regions, but more than half of American workers toil on the frontlines, without much of an option to work from home.

The issue of reparations is widely debated across the Caribbean, where an estimated 5 million slaves were brought over by colonial powers, including Britain and France, and forced to toil on sugar plantations and other fields under brutal conditions.

The complex formula rewards successful fighters, including those who fight for multimillion-dollar purses, but the commission said it balances that with ensuring boxers who toil on the undercard receive their fair share.

They toil on the sides of roads and highways that connect to the stadiums, built so recently that GPS devices do not have up-to-date directions.

It’s a partial, free-market approach to land reform in a vast nation that since colonial times has seen great inequalities in the distribution of land, with a few farmers and corporations holding enormous expanses while millions toil on small plots to which they hold little if any legal claim.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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