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...salaried worker at AK Steel, "and the union was a big problem there. They worked at not working." Eventually there was a lockout-and AK Steel reorganized itself as a nonunion shop. "They're making big profits now," Bob said. "You wonder why there can't be some middle ground" between the old-fashioned, inflexible unions and "the ceos selling out these companies, shipping jobs overseas...
...diplomatic consensus was not good going into the orchestra's adventure in the Hermit Kingdom. Except for closing a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon - a significant step, to be sure - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has not fulfilled any other aspect of the supposedly ground-breaking deal he signed last year. But the warmth and musical harmony of Tuesday night in Pyongyang seemed to belie that impasse. And what dramatic possibilities there might have been. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the same peninsula, albeit in South Korea, attending the inauguration of that country's new President. If there...
...outside world, the concert might appear to be aimed, as Maazel put it, at bringing "peoples and their cultures together on common ground, where the roots of peaceful interchange can imperceptibly take hold." Skeptics, like Bolton, believe Kim will simply use that perception to stall for more time, and ultimately not live up to what he has agreed to do: give the outside world chapter and verse about his nuclear weapons programs, past and present...
...other way. He was keeping his head up and looking to do that every time.”Siena goalie Brent Herbst made nine saves over the course of play, while junior Joe Pike denied the Saints four times. Overall, Harvard outshot Siena, 28-21, and earned six ground balls to the Saint’s 11. Nick Smith stepped up to fill the shoes of graduated co-captain John Henry Flood, winning six of 11 faceoffs.“We’re extremely disappointed,” Scholl said. “We had such high expectations we?...
...have seen a shift in Sadr's strategy, I believe," said Gen. Raymond Odierno, the ground commander for U.S. forces in Iraq. "He has talked more and more about moving toward a more humanitarian movement, a political movement more like his father had, and away from a more lethal, militia-type movement...