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From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, plant closings, bitter labor disputes, and manufacturing relocations profoundly and often disastrously influenced the lives of workers, unions, and communities in the Midwest. This volume tells the stories implicit in that process. Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions, and Communities presents case studies from throughout the Midwest. The contributors look at tire manufacturing in Akron, Ohio; corn products in Clinton, Iowa; Wisconsin Steel Company in Chicago; an Ingersoll-Rand heavy bearings plant in South Bend, Indiana; a steel foundry in East Chicago, Indiana; an American Crane subsidiary in St. Paul; Iowa Beef P...
River and Willow Feathertail are just normal girls, well, as normal as normal girls can be when they?re half cat and have the supernatural powers to control the earth and water. Ever since their brother's disappearance, living life has been a struggle. To make it worse, people are watching them from the shadows, and their parents have disappeared as well. The Feathertail twins don't know who they can trust, making it harder by the minute. Both of them have secrets, making them unsure of trusting even each other. In order to succeed their goal, they seek out help. But will that be enough to save the ones they love? Or is that barrier of secrets just too hard to break?
The dual biography of the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world and dedicated the remainder of their long lives to making a safer, more caring world. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's marriage of over seventy-five years is the longest of any American presidential couple and has been described by them as a full partnership. President Bill Clinton once said that they have changed more lives around the world than any couple in world history. Their lives have been public and private models of honesty and integrity in post-Watergate America. The second of a two-volume biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter by hi...
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