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S.F. hotel workers triumph over lockout
December 3, 2004SAN FRANCISCO — Some 4,300 hotel workers returned to work triumphantly at 14 of this city’s premier hotels last week, after area health providers’ decisions to extend workers’ medical coverage for December and January pulled the...
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Bushs four horsemen of economic policy
December 3, 2004George W. Bush is an old-fashioned kind of ruler. He imagines himself divinely chosen to serve his tribe of economic royalists. “By the rich, for the rich” is his governing philosophy.
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Erie County residents reject budget plans
December 3, 2004BUFFALO, N.Y. — Residents here are shocked and angry with Erie County Executive Joel Giambra’s proposed 2005 “red” and “green” budgets. In order to deal with a $130 million budget deficit for 2005, the red budget,...
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Youth wins victory over racist police violence
December 3, 2004WORCESTER, Mass. — A major victory over police brutality was scored here Nov. 9 when a jury found Estevan Nembhard, an African American youth organizer from New York City who had been severely beaten by Worcester...
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International notes
December 3, 2004China: Mine disaster claims 166 lives The death toll in a major coal mine explosion in central China rose to 166 on Dec. 1, making it the deadliest accident in the country’s mining industry in years....
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