Labor costs edged up 0.2 percent in the period, the first increase since the spring of 2009.
Like that other happy dawn 30 years ago, too, Friday's marriage will offer a respite, albeit fleeting, from a public mood weighed down by recession fears, unemployment and a government austerity program that has labor unions edging toward a season of paralyzing strikes.
Black subcontractors became in demand from white firms, which saw that their cheap labor offered an edge in bidding for government jobs.
Much of the time Washington seems determined to help kick the marginally competitive labor off the edge even faster.
With mobile, thankfully, workers can work when they choose, and startups can access labor at the edge of the network, often at will.
Maintaining that edge was labor intensive.
With the global economy on a knife's edge, and labor figures on Friday very likely to show mounting American job losses, the financial markets, foreign leaders and even the Bush administration are looking to Mr. Obama for signs of how he will manage the crisis.
Abundant and cheap labor is our competitive edge.
After four weeks of medical recuperation and not a day out campaigning, the candidate is laboring to regain his edge.
For an entire year, she had worked to shed 20 pounds and labored to put the edge back in her game.
