Gift ideas just don't work for Labor Day.(FAMILY TIMES)(LIFE AND TIMES)

From: The Washington Times | Date: September 3, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

OK, on the count of three, let's have a dignified round of applause for Elaine Chao, the nation's esteemed secretary of the Department of Labor, which may or may not require its employees to dance around with noisemakers and paper hats tomorrow.

It is, after all, Labor Day.

The agency defines the holiday as "a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity and ...

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