Word: caterpillar
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...CATERPILLAR U.A.W. ends 17-month strike against tractor maker. Management concessions: none...
...Weird Wonders Inside locked cabinets at the Smithsonian Institution nestle snapshots in stone as vivid as any photograph. There, engraved on slices of ink-black shale, are the myriad inhabitants of a vanished world, from plump Aysheaia prancing on caterpillar-like legs to crafty Ottoia, lurking in a burrow and extending its predatory proboscis. Excavated in the early 1900s from a geological formation in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale, these relics of the earliest animals to appear on earth are now revered as priceless treasures. Yet for half a century after their discovery, the Burgess Shale fossils...
...communicate her sense of excitement, Nash uses bold metaphorical leaps and descriptive passages that can bring to life a half-billion-year-old fossil ("plump Aysheaia," she writes, "prancing on caterpillar-like legs"). These gifts, says senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, make Nash "a national treasure--one of the few who can see the cutting edge of science, report it deeply, and then write about it with grace and style...
More than 8,700 Caterpillar workers have set down their picket signs now that their union has told them to end their 17-month strike. The United Auto Workers leadership called it quits despite a vote by workers on Sunday rejecting a six-year contract that would limit job security, create lower wage scales for some workers, limit union activity and give the company more power to schedule odd working hours without paying overtime. Caterpillar may be in no hurry to put the strikers back to work: the company has posted record profits with a combination of strikers who crossed...
...senses. Gene Autry predicted that such things could happen in the famous cowboy ballad Don't Fence Me In. What modern men fail to realize is that those open skies are open because they are owned and operated by the U.S. government. When activist Dick Carver climbed aboard his Caterpillar bulldozer to open a road in a national forest, he wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, grazing rights that in turn can be sold for several times their...