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U.S. aims for nuclear workers' safety
Feb 1 2006 8:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department, for the first time, plans to start fining contractors who violate basic safety rules at the nation's nuclear weapons plants.
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Scandal increases scrutiny of K Street
Feb 1 2006 2:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - K Street bisects the nation's capital on a route that stretches from tony Georgetown through the city's business district into a working-class neighborhood. But "K Street" also has long been invoked as shorthand for the monied lobbyists who ply influence in this town from offices scattered along the avenue or nearby.
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Honorary Sunshine Week chairman named
Feb 1 2006 1:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former journalist and chief State Department spokesman Hodding Carter will be the honorary chairman of a weeklong campaign for government openness.
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Official to plead guilty in Iraq scheme
Feb 1 2006 12:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former U.S. occupation official in Iraq has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to steal more than $2 million in reconstruction money and award contracts to a businessman in exchange for more than $1 million in cash and goods.
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Postal shooting a grim reminder of past
Feb 1 2006 3:26AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The deadly shootings at a California mail processing plant are a grim reminder of cases in the 1980s and '90s that raised public concern and brought the post office and its employees and supervisors together in an effort to end violence at work.
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