BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
BLS
1 American
bls.
2
American
abbreviation
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bales.
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barrels.
B.L.S.
3
American
abbreviation
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Bachelor of Library Science.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Overall import prices rose 1.1% in September, after expanding by 0.5% in August, the BLS said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The increases were driven by capital goods; nonfuel industrial supplies and materials; consumer goods, excluding automotives; as well as automotive vehicles, parts and engines, the BLS said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Employment in most major sectors was largely unchanged, the BLS reported, with health care posting gains of 17,000.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The 29,000 jobs created in September was down from a figure of 133,000 in August, according to revised BLS figures for the month.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Of the “private household cleaners and servants” it managed to locate in 1998, the BLS reports that 36.8 percent were Hispanic, 15.8 percent black, and 2.7 percent “other.”
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
You said the numbers were wrong,’ ” Kathleen Utgoff, who ran the B.L.S. under President George W. Bush, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
TMZ has paid at least one mole inside B.L.S., a limousine service, to provide lists of celebrity customers, their planned routes, and the license-plate numbers of their vehicles.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2016
The B.L.S. has also found that the number of new establishments has fallen sharply since 2006.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2012
For workers born in Mexico, the B.L.S. said, fatal workplace injuries fell to 269 last year, down 43 percent from 465 three years earlier.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2010
These three have played together for B.L.S. for the past three years, and are undoubtedly the strongest centre in the League.
From Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various
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