Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teams of company-hired archaeologists additionally spent a total of 16 months surveying Northern Border's entire right of way to locate areas of historical or archaeological significance. Some 171 such sites were identified, ranging from an ancient Dakota Indian camp to the remains of sod huts built by early white settlers. Minor reroutes were made to skirt the most important sites...
...said the recalled lot contained 93,400 bottles containing 50 capsules each and that they had been distributed east of the Mississippi as well as in North Dakota. South Dakota, Nebraska and in part of Wyoming. The expatiation date was April...
...site, which is a landfill intended for a development of offices and apartments called Battery Park City. They laid down 700 cu. yds. of topsoil in a 2-in. layer and hand dug 285 furrows. Then they sowed 6 bu. of hard, red spring wheat donated by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. While office workers watched skeptically from nearby towers or paid lunchtime visits in three-piece suits, Denes and her friends weeded and watered...
...company seems to have gone wrong mainly in labor relations. Union workers have struck the Dakota City plant four times since it was organized in 1969. A bloody strike that year culminated in the burning of a company executive's home and the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl. A union member was later convicted of manslaughter...
...latest Iowa Beef clash grows out of a disagreement over a new union contract for the Dakota City headquarters plant, one of eleven slaughterhouses that the company operates in seven states. Union members turned down a four-year agreement that required a wage freeze with no cost of living adjustments and the introduction of a a two-tiered pay scale that would pay new slaughterers $2 less than the current hourly starting wage of $9.27. The company also demanded a contract clause that would allow it to reduce wages in the Dakota City plant if any other local...