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...jobs have vanished since 2000, companies are building plants overseas, where natural gas goes for a small fraction of the price it commands in the U.S. Dow Chemical is constructing a $4 billion petrochemical plant in Oman, and CEO Andrew Liveris says the plant would have been built in Freeport, Texas, if not for the price difference. At PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, Pa., CEO Charles Bunch says he may have to close two North Carolina fiber-glass plants. "We've lost a lot of jobs to China because of the labor-cost difference," he says. "Now we're starting...
...motivated by "glitter and gusto" and that he was "immature" prove only that the doctors have been watching too many beer commercials. Their comments are an insult to all victims of Bolshevism. I suggest they administer a psychiatric examination to the officials involved in this tragedy. Peter Lepka Freeport...
...Even when walking around the mall, they have sodas and fast food in their hands. It's sad to see this terrible and preventable disease run rampant among our youth. There are people around the world starving to death, and here we are eating ourselves to death. GLENYS McNALLY Freeport...
...York, where she competed in the Junior Miss pageant in high school. At Harvard, she sang in the Radcliffe Choral Society and concentrated in psychology. Her junior year at Harvard, she found a way to help pay the tuition bills: she took the crown for Miss Freeport, Mass., a pageant open to out-of-state contestants, and competed in the Miss Massachusetts pageant, playing classical piano for her talent...
...months after the Aug. 31 attack, it seemed likely that no one would unravel the mystery of why these teachers were targeted on a mountain road leading to the giant Grasberg mine, which is run by P.T. Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold. The military blamed the attack on the Free Papua Movement, a ragtag group of Papua rebels fighting a desultory war to free the province from Indonesian rule, but produced scant evidence to back the claim. Meanwhile, relatives of the slain teachers have grown increasingly frustrated by the inability of local...