Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between 1916 and 1926 the back social-security money owed them; 2) allow registered voters under age 35 to run for any political office; 3) provide safe drinking water to all U.S. citizens; 4) give better benefits to U.S. veterans; and 5) increase Mississippi teachers' salaries. The former textile-plant worker has also pledged to donate $1,000 a month of his congressional pay to the Mississippi Baptist Children's Home and schools for the state's deaf and blind children...
Fricano began work at age 19 at a Chevrolet plant. Now on the UAW's International Union Executive Board, he hopes to make this race a referendum on the Contract with America, which he calls the Contract on America. Facing Bill Paxon, one of Newt Gingrich's lieutenants, Fricano has made hay of Paxon's vote against the minimum-wage hike. In this battle between labor and the G.O.P. Congress, Fricano has strong support despite the district's solid Republicanism...
...former gang member, the popular Torres is emblematic of his hardworking immigrant constituents. He protected the district's B-2 plant and sponsored a bill to fight gang violence. His support of NAFTA disappointed United Auto Worker allies, but Torres was able to extract from the White House a $225 million commitment to job retraining...
Before repair work began, the city's 100-year-old sewer system frequently overflowed, sending waste into the Charles River instead of the city's sewage treatment plant, according to Elizabeth Epstein, Cambridge's deputy director of community development...
...Victims will be just as dead, killed off in the name of greed," he said, comparing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing to those laid off in the most recent General Motors plant closing...