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Border Patrol in the ER?
April 16, 2004Hospital emergency room admitting clerks would become involuntary agents of the Department of Homeland Security under HR 3722, a bill being proposed by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif). The bill to amend the Medicare Prescription Drug Act...
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A Cintas drivers story
April 16, 2004Laundry truck driver Mark Fragola may suffer from respiratory ailments the rest of his life. After two years of driving a delivery truck for Cintas Corp. in Branford, Conn., the 31-year-old father of two sought medical...
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Bushs money laundry-ing
April 16, 2004Six weeks after Cintas Corp. Chairman Richard T. Farmer co-hosted a $1.7 million fundraiser for George W. Bush in Cincinnati, Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed exempting industrial laundries like Cintas from rules that protect workers from...
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Foundry worker speaks
April 16, 2004Workers’ Correspondence Thank you for last week’s article captioned, “Twin Cities bus drivers fight to save health care.” Our April 10 solidarity rally at the state capital saw nearly 300 PWWs handed out with the headline...
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The Maestro of Fraud
April 16, 2004Bob Woodward called his biography of Alan Greenspan “Maestro” because the Federal Reserve chief is “a conductor, exquisitely attuned to every instrument in the political and economic orchestra,” according to the amazon.com review.
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