UPS reaches five year pact amid peak strike turmoil
During the UPS Teamsters strike FedEx reports a 40 percent rise in business and 4 million daily deliveries. The five year contract aims to restore labor peace and win back customers while pilots negotiate their own terms with UPS. Clinton and Herman praise the accord as a path to stability.
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Iowa shippers limit UPS reliance as backups used
Precision of New Hampton plans to resume UPS for some shipments while seeking options. Dennis Hansen notes 600 packages weekly but not all will return to UPS. Industry voices say firms hold back until UPS fully resumes, with Shippers Association and Lloyd Table Co. reporting delays.
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Summer of Love memorabilia auction heads to Golden Gate
San Francisco AP. A house once home to Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead plus 300 other items from the Summer of Love are set for Oct 4 auction. Highlights include Garcia lyrics to Loose Lucy and a Grateful Dead leather medicine bag. Also offered are a psychedelic bus, a 1947 Chevy, a Joni Mitchell love letter, and a John Lennon portable organ bought in India.
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North Korea Breaks Ground on Multinational Reactor Project
North Korea inaugurates construction of two 1,000 MW light water reactors under a 1994 deal with a U S led consortium. Kim Byong Gi says delays raise doubts about completion while demanding U S sanctions be lifted and emphasizes the project is not a gift.
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