Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Thursday, John Tingle, an employee at Louisville's Standard- Gravure Co., was startled to see a former co-worker. Joseph Wesbecker, 47, was carrying a duffel bag, an AK-47 rifle and a 9-mm handgun. "I told them I'd be back," Wesbecker growled at Tingle. "Back off and get out of the way." Tingle and several other workers quickly locked themselves in a bathroom, and Wesbecker took an elevator to the third-floor offices, looking for bosses or supervisors. Finding none, he worked his way downstairs, gunning down victims...
...month 35,000 to 40,000 Russians went on strike to protest those laws. Though the walkouts have been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory worker Vladimir Shorikin. Igor Shepelevich, director of a computer-chip plant, explained that new strikes could pretty well close down Estonia. "The republic's railroads, airports, seaports and power systems are all run by Russians," he pointed out. In Moldavia recent strikes by Russians left tomatoes rotting in fields and railroad...
Sure, it was touching, but I realized that because he was a campaign worker, this "mosaic" bit might have been just another campaign-endorsed talking point. I wanted to believe in unity, though it sounded naive in the midst of a tense campaign...
...Most such cases, unlike McAfee's, involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby to let her die. An alliance of disability-rights activists...
While wages have increased at an annual rate of 3.3% since 1983, corporations have seen their health-care premiums jump 10% to 15% annually, to a current average of some $3,100 a worker. Economists expect that total U.S. health-care spending will exceed $600 billion this year, nearly 12% of the U.S. gross national product, up from...