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EDITORIAL: Legalized robbery
May 13, 2005With one stroke of a pen a federal bankruptcy judge in Chicago legalized robbery. When Judge Eugene Wedoff allowed United Airlines to dump its responsibilities to pay its workers’ pensions, Wedoff gave the seal of approval...
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Nuclear weapons and humans cannot coexist: A Japanese survivor speaks out
May 13, 2005When 60 years ago the United States became the first (and since then the only) country to use atomic weapons by dropping them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Those...
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Breaking the stranglehold of the insurance industry
May 13, 2005People’s Health Buying protection against the possibility of future risks is as old as time itself. In the corporate world, this system of protection is called insurance. Everyone faces the risk of fires and damage to...
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Airline workers pensions crash and burn
May 13, 2005The union representing United Airlines’ flight attendants warned of the demise of the nation’s defined-benefit pension system after a bankruptcy judge gave the airline the go-ahead to dump billions of dollars of pension obligations owed to...
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My military tribunal
May 13, 2005Pages from workers’ lives Too young to join the Army during World War II, Richard Neill worked in the Merchant Marine. That was an equally dangerous job. He was drafted and wounded in the Korean War...
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