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Obama puts Nike in trade spotlight despite sweatshop stigma of past

2015-05-07 05:08:50| Apparel - Topix.net

President Barack Obama will make a high-profile pitch for a Pacific trade deal he promises will protect workers on Friday at Nike Inc, a company once reviled for using Asian sweatshops to make its famous sneakers. In choosing the company's Oregon headquarters as the backdrop for his message, Obama risks reminding people of global trade's downside just when he needs to convince nervous Democrats to back the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership , a key plank of the administration's strategic pivot to Asia.

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Fearing Stigma, Some Hospitals Are Reluctant To Treat Ebola Patients

2014-11-29 22:26:45| Biotech - Topix.net

Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started work on building a network of hospitals to provide effective Ebola patient care earlier this year, only a couple dozen American facilities - a tiny fraction of the more than 5,000 hospitals across the country - have volunteered their services. That's because concerns about exorbitant health care costs, unwanted attention, and the fears of other patients loom large among hospital administrators, further complicating the Obama administration's plans to set up one Ebola facility in every state and provide additional support in New York, Chicago, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., as outlined in a $6 billion emergency fund request .

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Marijuana Becomes Savior, Stigma for Revived Hemp Crop

2014-11-10 11:08:14| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Jim Barton is finally harvesting a crop of hemp, the cannabis variety used in colonial times to make rope, sailcloth and other goods. But the 80-year-old Kentucky farmer isn't celebrating the successful drive to loosen marijuana laws that also moved Congress to allow pilot plots of his non-intoxicating version of the plant.

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Fukushima Workers Quit Japan Utility in Droves Over Stigma, Pay Cuts

2014-07-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Stigma, pay cuts and risk of radiation exposure are among the reasons why 3,000 employees have left the utility at the center of Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster. Now there's an additional factor: better-paying jobs in the feel-good solar energy industry. Engineers and other employees at TEPCO, or Tokyo Electric Power Co., were once mainstays of Japan's corporate culture, which is famous for prizing loyalty to a single company and lifetime employment with it. But the March 2011 tsunami that swamped...

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