Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trying to rally near one factory, 20,000 workers clashed with riot police. A day later, 40,000 strikers and supporters staged a twelve-hour demonstration in and around Ulsan. Wearing white safety helmets and their blue company uniforms, the demonstrators flooded into the municipal stadium after a six-mile march. It was the biggest single labor protest in the nation's history...
...work in a slaughterhouse, then switched to a job at a leather- processing factory. It was punishing work, and it meant a three-mile walk to and from the plant, but Cornell hardly missed a day. Though his family grew to include 13 children, he managed to keep them all clothed, warm and fed. They never took public aid. "You were ashamed to be on welfare then," recalls Minnie, who sometimes worked as a domestic. "There was a stigma attached to it." They lived in the central ward of Newark, among stable families headed by bus drivers, sanitation workers...
...tires from overheating under the heavy load. Ray is a careful man. He cuts carefully, loads carefully and carefully tots expenses. "It takes two-days work to pay for one blowed tire." And he blows them often, because he has to overload the truck to make the 60-mile round trip from home to woods to kiln pay. His chain saw cost $500, and he can only run it a few years before it needs replacing. He has just had to overhaul his truck's engine; that cost $1,400. "And anymore it takes $2 just to fill the chain...
...anchorage off Fujairah was considered a safe haven from the seven-year-old war between Iran and Iraq until the U.S-operated supertanker Texaco Caribbean hit a mine Monday in the 35-square mile area...
Coast guard patrols in Fujairah ordered ships away from the 35-square-mile area after an Arab vessel reported sighting the sixth mine early yesterday...