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Fighting the ravages of luxury towers
May 25, 2007BROOKLYN, N.Y. — In most of the country, the housing boom is past. Not in New York City. Apartments, office towers, hotels, luxury entertainment facilities and mixed-use complexes rise to 70 stories. In recent years, housing...
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Autoworkers wary of Chrysler sale
May 25, 2007DETROIT — The restructuring taking place in the auto industry took a dramatic turn May 15 when Cerberus, the New York private equity investment firm, acquired an 80.1 percent controlling share of Chrysler and renamed it...
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Congress misses scale of Gonzales crimes
May 22, 2007Viewpoint HOUSTON — As congressional politicians are honed in on nailing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, they are missing the most obvious crimes he committed. The U.S. Congress is bogged down over whether Houston attorney and...
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Mushroom workers in spotlight on May Day
May 18, 2007KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. — The Philadelphia County Central Labor Council and the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health (Philaposh) celebrated Workers Memorial Day and May Day this year by marching and rallying with the...
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Buffett spurns Klamath River tribes and fishermen on dams
May 18, 2007The Yurok, Karuk and Hoopa Valley tribes and fishermen capped off their historic cross-country pilgrimage to Omaha, Neb., on May 5 with a protest outside the shareholders meeting of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway Corp. They demanded the...
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