Word: shoeing
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Penn center Jan Fikiel hit a layup. On the subsequent possession, the first shoe dropped. Wallace picked up his fourth foul...
Then, the second shoe dropped...
DIED. JIM CAPALDI, 60, drummer and co-founder, with Steve Winwood, of the '60s band Traffic, whose hits included Paper Sun and Hole in My Shoe; of stomach cancer; in London. After the band split up in 1974, Capaldi went on to a successful solo career, hitting the charts with a '70s cover of Roy Orbison's Love Hurts...
...labor shortage has given button-sewers and shoe-stitchers a bit of bargaining power for the first time. Factory owners cannot replace disgruntled employees as easily as they once could; wildcat strikes can cripple output for days or weeks. Almost imperceptibly, workers are starting to win concessions. As many as 3,000 employees at Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer Haiyan staged a walkout in October to protest salaries that were below minimum wage; they were enticed back to the factory floor by a raise and the promise of back pay. A month later, 1,000 employees of the Shanlin electronics factory...
...workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned judges and Chinese officials on the workers' behalf, and in some cases even hired lawyers to appeal for lesser sentences. The court upheld the convictions, but rescinded the original prison terms, saying simply they had been "heavy sentences." All 10 workers walked free...