Word: fishermen
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...been invented, the gentlemen who owned the fishing boats on Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, imposed the first known salary cap. In their wisdom, they withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between worker and boss. Many strikes have been bitter. Some have been brutal: 18 steelworkers were killed during a 3 1/2-month strike...
...novel becomes a tender examination of fairness and forgiveness. The "Americans" come to seem as inscrutable as the Japanese, as clannish and as sparing with their feelings. And the divisions between the two are only intensified by their affinities: when the reticent descendants of samurai meet laconic Scandinavian fishermen, one form of silence glances off another...
...federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered the Exxon Corp. to pay a whopping $5 billion in punitive damages to commercial fishermen, property owners and Alaska natives harmed in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon said it would appeal...
Five miles east of Havana is Cojimar, Ernest Hemingway's fishing village, the place where he docked his boat, the Pilar. The town's fishermen inspired The Old Man and the Sea. Last Monday night, from out of La Terraza bar, which he once patronized, a bronze head of Hemingway looked to the coast, toward five young men and the sea. They crawled silently aboard a homemade raft loaded with plastic soda bottles filled with fresh water, canned condensed milk, cheese, knives and fishing equipment. A big tarp was onboard to protect them from...
...federal jury ruled that Exxon Corp. must pay $286.8 million to 10,000 commercial fishermen for loss of income from the 1989 spill in Prince William Sound. The compensation is far less than the $895 million demanded by the fisherman but more than double what Exxon said it was willing to pay: $113 million. Now, it's on to the final stage of lawsuits in connection with the spill. Up next: a $15 billion claim for punitive damages against Exxon, which will include the commercial fishermen, Native Eskimos and others...