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Smithfield Packing, union agree on NC contract

Jun. 26, 2009
Smithfield Packing Co. and the union that worked for years to organize one of the world's largest pork slaughterhouses said Friday they reached a tentative agreement on their first contract for the plant. The United Food and Commercial Workers and Smithfield...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler