Word: minn
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...Paul, Minn. native also kept pace in Terra Haute with her Pre-Nationals showing...
...benefit gap continues to expand in part because governments face a steady ramping up of collective bargaining demands. "Decisions about benefits changes can't be made instantaneously as they can be in the private sector," says Blaine Bos, a consultant for Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...
...idea of quitting collectively came 12 years after the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer, low birth weight and coronary disease. Lynn Smith, a newspaper editor in Monticello, Minn., and a former smoker, wrote editorials in the 1970s urging others to quit. Smith, who once told the New York Times he started smoking "as a teenager by picking up butts from the street during the Depression," organized a local event called "D-Day," or "Don't Smoke Day," in 1976. The next year, the California chapter of the American Cancer Society sponsored a similar...
...have one word to describe yourself. What would it be? Sylesh Volla, EAGAN, MINN. Tenacious...
...Rowland, a native of Eden Prairie, Minn., played for a strong high school team at Hopkins High and is looking forward to being a part of another winning program. But while the Crimson was picked as the top team in the league in the media preseason poll, Rowland and the rest of the squad are not allowing the lofty expectations to burden them...