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Pro Bowl receiver Chad Johnson won’t be practicing with the Cincinnati Bengals for a while because his right ankle hasn’t fully recovered from surgery.
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Playboy has announced to publish the pictorial of the sexiest women from the My Space Community. The contest is on till 1st March 2005 and to apply you are just...
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AP, Washington
The government says orders to U.S. factories fell a larger-than-expected 0.9 percent in March, while factory shipments dropped for a record eighth consecutive month....
made popular May 1 2009
AP, Moscow
For decades, it spewed chemicals and foul effluent into the pristine waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia.
made popular Mar 13 2009
AP, Moscow
A factory in Siberia that has polluted the world’s largest freshwater lake with chemical effluent for decades is going to be closed for good.
made popular Mar 13 2009
AP, Washington
The goverment says orders to U.S. factories fell for a record sixth straight month in January as demand fell across a wide cross-section of industries.
made popular Mar 5 2009
AP, Beijing
Plunging exports. Factory closures. More than 20 million people thrown out of work. Official data showing that China’s economy is cooling but still growing...
made popular Feb 6 2009
AP, Washington
The government says orders to U.S. factories fell for a record fifth straight month in December, closing out the worst year for American manufacturers since 2002....
made popular Feb 5 2009
AP, Jasper
An explosion at a southern Indiana wood laminate plant Friday sent 10 workers to a hospital with injuries, collapsed walls and set dust on fire, authorities said.
made popular Jan 9 2009
AP, Jasper
An explosion at a southern Indiana wood laminate plant Friday sent eight workers to a hospital with injuries, collapsed walls and set dust on fire, authorities said.
made popular Jan 9 2009
AP, Jasper
Authorities say six people were hurt in an explosion and fire at a furniture factory in the southern Indiana city of Jasper.
made popular Jan 9 2009
AP, Jasper
Authorities say several people have been injured after an explosion at a southern Indiana furniture factory.
made popular Jan 9 2009
AP, Dongguan
Laid-off migrant worker Chen Li had red scrape marks on his right cheek from a scuffle with riot police outside his factory that went bust this week in southern China.
made popular Dec 19 2008
AP, Dongguan
Police held hundreds of protesting workers inside a suitcase factory in southern China to prevent them from staging a public demonstration about a wage dispute Friday,...
made popular Dec 19 2008
AP, New York
A Washington Post reporter’s blog about the six-day occupation of a shuttered Chicago factory will be turned into a book, tentavively titled “Revolt on...
made popular Dec 13 2008
AP, Brussels
EU regulators said Thursday they would investigate Poland’s euro52.7 million ($68 million) subsidy to computer maker Dell Inc., because they doubt the...
made popular Dec 11 2008
AP, Shanghai
Hundreds of workers gathered outside a Shanghai electrical components factory this week to demand pay and protest layoffs, as recession-related unrest spread to...
made popular Dec 9 2008
AP, Guangzhou
About 100 factory owners and employees held up red protest banners outside a government building Friday in southern China, demanding that officials help them collect...
made popular Dec 5 2008
AP, Guangzhou
About 100 factory owners and employees gathered outside a provincial government building Friday in southern China to demand help in recovering money owed them by a car...
made popular Dec 5 2008
AP, Washington
Orders to U.S. factories plunged in October by the sharpest amount in over eight years as a deepening recession caused big cutbacks in demand for steel, autos,...
made popular Dec 4 2008
AP, Dongguan
It started as a pay dispute at a southern Chinese toy factory. But it quickly turned into a riot as laid-off workers tapped into a network of friends and unemployed...
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, center, Claudio Del Vecchio, Chairman & CEO of Brooks Brothers, left, and Haverhill, Mass., mayor James J. Fiorentini, right, cut the ribbon in celebration of Southwick’s 80th anniversary and grand opening of the...
