Word: health
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...about demands for outlandish salaries or featherbedded work rules. The miners on the pickets of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are struggling over the basic dignities that American workers can reasonably expect--the right to bargain collectively in good faith, the right to a contract and the right to health benefits for retirees, disabled workers and surviving spouses...
Asked about attempts in Congress to repeal catastrophic health care legislation for the elderly, Bush made clear he was staying away from that controversial topic, preferring instead to let "the congressional process hash this...
...problem of contamination is not exclusive to distant lands. As the domestic agricultural sector becomes increasingly corporatized, more emphasis is placed on the all-important bottom line, no matter what the environmental costs. The potential health hazards of pesticides are just now beginning to be realized...
...bill also contains more than $1.5 billion for AIDS research and treatment; $4 billion for job-training programs; $1.9 billion for alcohol, drug abuse and mental health programs; $11.7 billion for welfare programs; and $2.1 billion for education for the handicapped...
...vote was the second abortion showdown in the House since the Supreme Court's July 3 decision in the Webster v. Reproductive Health Services case...