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Casting about for a new challenge, Mulroney joined the Iron Ore Co. of Canada, a subsidiary of the U.S.-owned Hanna Mining Co. His main task was to bring labor peace to the strike-plagued firm and its 7,000 workers. Mulroney succeeded admirably, raising widows' pensions and distributing worker bonuses when the company broke the $100 million mark in earnings. Faced with the U.S. auto recession and declining demand for steel, Mulroney in 1982 shut down a company mine at Schefferville in northeastern Quebec. The closing put 285 miners out of work and turned Schefferville into a ghost...
Frank Nygaard Sherwood, Ore...
...Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster of patients with knee problems reads like a Who 's Who of running: Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, Joaquim Cruz and Mary Decker. James first prescribed drug and physical therapy. Six days later, on April 23, a depressed Benoit was back in James' office; that morning...
...unions remain Thatcher's greatest affliction. The dock strike began after a nonunion worker was employed to move iron ore off the docks at Immingham, in eastern England. Though the procedure was routine, the Transport and General Workers' Union called a walkout. Union leaders pressed port employers to agree that nonunion help would never be used again, but the demand was rejected. Many dockers also suspected that the Thatcher government intended to seek a change in a 1947 law that effectively guarantees them jobs for life. The Prime Minister insisted that that was not the case...
Erma Bombeck may be the best friend I ever had. Mary Lou Seubert Eugene, Ore...