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  • Gersons tied knot 70 years ago …Still blissful!

    Gersons tied knot 70 years ago …Still blissful!

    May 18, 2002

    Family, friends and comrades of Si and Sophie Gerson will toast the couple's 70th wedding anniversary during a gala celebration May 19 at Winston Unity Center in Manhattan. In an age when more than half of...

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  • AFL-CIO releases survey of working women

    AFL-CIO releases survey of working women

    May 18, 2002

    The AFL-CIO's 'Ask a Working Woman' survey shows that although their concerns remain the same, working women's legislative issue priorities have shifted, with health and retirement issues now topping a list that includes affirmative action, equal...

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  • Bush blocks children’s rights at U.N. session

    Bush blocks children’s rights at U.N. session

    May 18, 2002 By Susan Webb

    In the United Nations Special Session on Children, May 8-10, the Bush administration stood virtually isolated from the world community because of its opposition to comprehensive reproductive health services and sex education for teenagers. For the...

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  • Pennsylvanians tell Gov. Schweiker: ‘Hands off our health care’

    Pennsylvanians tell Gov. Schweiker: ‘Hands off our health care’

    May 18, 2002

    HARRISBURG, Pa. - On May 1 over 200 people gathered here for a rally and lobby day to tell Gov. Mark Schweiker, 'Hands off our health care.' The crowd included two busloads of uninsured workers and...

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  • Action needed on nursing shortage

    Action needed on nursing shortage

    May 18, 2002

    The historic actions taken in California that establish the maximum number of patients a hospital can assign to a nurse are sending shockwaves across the country. Finally, at least one state took the proper action to...

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