UAW eyes more Jap-owned plants in Midwest
UAW regional officials say efforts to unionize Japanese owned plants in Lafayette Indiana and Georgetown Kentucky will continue despite the Tennessee Nissan vote. Subaru Isuzu in Lafayette begins car and truck production in September while Nissan workers voted against representation 1622 to 711.
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Midwest
Lafayette
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Georgetown
Tennessee Nissan
William E. Osos
UAW Region 3
Smyrna, Tenn
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U.S
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General Motors Corp
Yokich
Bloomington
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Purdue University
Krannert School of Management
Tennessee
Indiana
Kentucky
Greenpeace vows protest during Trident 2 test off Cape Canaveral
Greenpeace planned to sail two vessels into international waters east of Cape Canaveral to disrupt a Trident 2 submarine missile launch. The group argued the missile escalates the arms race at sea while critics warn of its precision and potential first strike use amid a Navy program costing about 51.3 billion dollars.
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Greenpeace
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Tennessee
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Air Force
Port Canaveral
Air Force Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Atlantic City mayor arrested on bribery charges
Atlantic City Mayor James Usry and 14 others were charged after a nine month corruption probe. Usry, a former city administrator and long time Black Mayors leader, faced a $6000 payoff tied to a chairlift ordinance. He refused to resign, asserting his innocence as officials said the city would run “business as usual.”
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N.J
UPI
James Usry
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National Conference of Black Mayors
Donald G. Targan
Oceanside
Thomas Carver
Casino Association of New Jersey
Atlantic City Housing Authority
W. Oscar Harris Jr
Clinton Pagano
Osry
Carl Briscoe
Briscoe
Thomas Kean
Cholesterol cutback linked to cancer fight say UC Berkeley scientists
Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Lab researchers report that lowering cholesterol production can block a defective ras protein from triggering uncontrolled cell growth linked to colorectal and pancreatic cancers. They suggest cholesterol-reducing drugs like lovastatin may offer a safer route to slow tumor development and exploring farnesyl pyrophosphate's role as an anchor for ras.
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Calif
California
U.S
University of California, Berkeley
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Laboraory
Science
Jasper Rine
William Schafer
Kim
Rine
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