Word: peoria
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...Caterpillar Inc., his employer of 35 years and one of the world's leading purveyors of construction equipment, announced it would shed some 20,000 jobs - nearly one-fifth of its global workforce. The announcement just made things official: the bulk of that astonishing figure is already off the Peoria company's books, including some 2,500 management-level personnel who accepted buyouts in recent weeks and 8,000 people who worked on contract or through agencies as custodians, engineers and information technologists. Temporary layoffs and plant closures are expected in the coming weeks, and more cuts are likely...
...with the average Representative's age rising to a record 57. That's three decades older than Aaron Schock, the youngest member of Congress and the first to be born in the 1980s. The 27-year-old Illinois Republican is already a political veteran: he won a seat on Peoria's school board at 19, rose to school-board president at 23 and then won two terms in the Illinois state legislature. He spoke with TIME about his early success, reaching out to Gen Y voters and the odds of having any fun in Washington...
...represented Illinois' 18th district, which includes Peoria, since being swept into office during the GOP's congressional landslide...
...have a task before us to rebuild America. As a nation, we need to continue to be the world leader in infrastructure development. We cannot stand by while our infrastructure ages and crumbles." - during his introduction as Transportation Secretary-designate, Peoria Journal Star...
...widely trusted but mostly mysterious agency known as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has ever had a public face, it was probably that of Lydia Lobsiger, the happy and relieved East Peoria, Ill., widow who in 1934 was the first American to get her little pile of savings back from the feds after a terrifying run on her local Fon du Lac State Bank. Now, almost 75 years later, the FDIC has been busy projecting a newer face, and it belongs to Sheila Bair, a 54-year-old lawyer from Kansas...