Four Day Week Gains Ground At Everett Paint Plant
Everett mass. ap four day week at kyan ite paints inc employees now work seven to four thirty monday through thursday friday overtime pay for friday overhaul says plant manager bernard macdougall the experiment cut weekend shipment loss and increased job applications union sanction passed 3 1 by the kyanne shop association need more workers to fill open positions as workers express preference for the shorter week
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Everett
Mass
Kyanite Paints, Inc
Bernard MacDougall
Kyanne Shop Association
MacDougall
Lawsuits flare as plumbing firms face treble damages
Washington AP reports major plumbing fixture makers Borg Warner American Standard and Kohler were found guilty of price fixing. Federal law allows treble damages in civil suits by states cities contractors and homeowners. Judge Rosenberg ordered pre-sentencing inquiry after fines totaling 370000 and jail terms for four executives. More than 1900 private suits have been filed seeking treble damages across utilities and public power buyers.
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Washington
Justice Department
Lucal
Pitsburgh
Borg Warner Corp
Chicago
American Standard Corp
New York
Kohler Corp
Kohler
Wis
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U.S
Rosenberg
Fricano
Supreme Court
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Fever's Heat: a Tool Against Cancer
New Orleans report notes fever as a potential cancer treatment. Researchers plan to raise body temperature artificially while giving anticancer drugs for a two punch approach. Historical observations link fever to cancer recovery, with Wisconsin and Rome teams reporting tumor disappearance in eight of 22 patients when heat raised blood supply to about 307 degrees Fahrenheit.
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New Orleans
Charles Heidelberger
University of Wisconsin
American Cancer Society
Science Writers
Wisconsin
University of Rome
Italy
Venice Sinks Into Sea Mud Threatens Historic City
Venice faces slow sinking as sea rise and mud drag piles deeper. The city rich with palaces churches and boutiques sits on wooden piles now buried by mud at about eight inches per century while polar ice melt adds four inches of sea level rise, risking loss of the famed Adriatic metropolis per National Geographic and UN studies.
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Washington
Venice
Adriatic
Atlantis
National Geographic Society
United Nations
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