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...machinist for the Cambridge pharmaceutical company Biogen who is studying electronics at night and raising three children, Bologna seems a happy...
BORN: Aug. 21, 1944, Minneapolis EDUCATION: De LaSalle High School, diploma, 1963 FAMILY: Wife, Sharon; four children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Machinist POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for Minnesota House, 1988; Minnesota House, 1991-93; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 480 Cedar Street, Suite 580, St. Paul...
DENVER: Try this one on: it seems Gay Balfour, a nearly broke Colorado machinist, had a dream one night. In vivid detail, he saw an enormous yellow truck with a green hose that sucked furry little rodents out of the ground. And wouldn't you know it, the next day he had a job at the Ute Mountain Indian reservation, where the farm's irrigation system was being overrun by prairie dogs. On the way home, he noticed an old sewage truck for sale -->
Striking Boeing workers, concerned about health insurance benefits and angry over prospective bonuses for Boeing executives, rejected a three-year contract offer that had been accepted earlier by the union leadership. Members of Machinists District Lodge 751 chanted "No givebacks, no way," and "Stop Boeing Greed" as it was announced that 60.9 percent of the rank-and-file rejected the proposal. Union negotiators urged membership to accept the offer, arguing that the agreement would boost pensions, offer some protections against job losses through subcontracting and scale down health care increases. But most of the 24,000 members rejected a requirement...
...phone call reached Rush Limbaugh at his studio shortly before he went on the air at noon, but this time the person on the other end of the line was not Bob, a machinist from Dayton, Ohio, or Dorothy, a housewife from Tucson, Arizona. It was Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the second most powerful man in Washington, calling Limbaugh to lobby for Bill Clinton's $40 billion rescue package for Mexico. The 10-min. chat, which took place four weeks ago, was cordial enough but left the folk hero of the kilohertz unmoved. As Limbaugh...