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Ormet steelworkers fight for jobs, health care
July 22, 2005WOODSFIELD, Ohio — For eight months now, 1,300 steelworkers and their families in this rural area along the Ohio River have been courageously holding the line. In November, a bankruptcy court gave the go-ahead to Ormet...
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L.A. janitors take on big aerospace
July 22, 2005LOS ANGELES — Some 500 Los Angeles janitors are standing up to the nation’s giant aerospace corporations here. Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman corporations, the multibillion-dollar aerospace/military contractors, are pinching pennies when it comes to paying...
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Objection!!!: Supreme Court nominee seen as threat to women, labor, racial equality
July 22, 2005WASHINGTON — Hours after President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court, fighters for human rights bombarded the Senate with demands that they reject him on grounds he is an enemy of...
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Grenada hit hard by Hurricane Emily
July 15, 2005Still reeling from the disaster of last September’s Hurricane Ivan, Grenada was battered early Thursday by Hurricane Emily, killing at least one man, injuring many and destroying several buildings. Amid a shortage of construction supplies from...
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Asian nations to U.S.: Set date to leave bases
July 15, 2005The Shanghai Cooperation Association — China, Russia and the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrghizstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — last week fired a diplomatic shot across the bow of the Bush administration’s plans to keep bases...
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