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...class biases" when it found the company guilty of contract fraud. METALCLAD, a California firm that was prevented from opening a toxic-waste plant in Mexico, won $15.6 million from that country. UPS is seeking $160 million from Canada because its public postal service competes "unfairly" against the Atlanta-based firm...
...machines and scanners are based; in Berlin. Last year the city of Kiel commemorated his achievements by renaming the Siemenswall Rd., which leads to his former plant, the Dr.-Hell-Strasse. DIED. HERMAN TALMADGE, 88, former U.S. senator and governor of Georgia who predicted that "blood will run in Atlanta's streets" after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in 1954; in Hampton, Georgia. Talmadge gradually reversed his opposition to the ruling, and was named Man of the Year by Morris Brown College, a predominantly black institution, in 1975. Talmadge later served on the Watergate investigative committee, only to be ousted...
...Another task-force surprise was a recommendation that the government review its lawsuits against several power companies accused of ignoring legally mandated pollution controls on renovated plants. Six utilities, including gigantic Southern Co. of Atlanta, hired ex-R.N.C. chairman Haley Barbour to lobby for the relaxation of controls. While raising at least $250,000 for the gala, Barbour met with Cheney on May 3 to discuss the matter. Barbour apparently made an impact. The review Cheney called for threw the lawsuits into limbo. And last week EPA assistant administrator Jeffrey Holmstead told an industry trade association that the Administration...
CONVICTED. H. RAP BROWN, 58, 1960s radical, of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another in a 2000 shoot-out; in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta. Brown, a Black Panther turned Muslim cleric known as Jamil Adullah al-Amin, could face execution or life imprisonment...
...Boston now make up the majority of the city’s population. Of course, there are many such cities in the U.S., and even though minorities outnumber whites in Boston, they are still underrepresented in the city’s business and political leadership. More obvious cities like Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles are recognized for their changing demographics, but Boston still faces challenges in fully embracing its minority residents...