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Other outstanding issues include: retroactive application of the Personal Conduct Policy during the lockout, workmen's compensation rules limiting filing in any state, the "Legacy Fund" to determine the amount and source of funding for past -- and future -- retired players, drug-testing and discipline/appeals process, etc.
Andrew Brandt: Getting to Yes: NFL Deal Close Andrew Brandt 2011
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In the progressive era, the population of this northern American outpost was largely German, and they imported not merely bratwurst and beer, but also Bismarckian policies such as workmen's compensation.
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He could hear the murmur of their voices: they were speaking the low German of his childhood, muttering to themselves, while the bright sun cruelly clarified their workmen's clothes and their shrunken bodies with the over-large lolling heads and hands of marionettes.
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"They're insanely ugly and they lace up like workmen's boots, but I love them, and love the fact that he chose them for me."
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There was no workmen's compensation law, accidents were frequent ...
Jeff Biggers: Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner's Day) Jeff Biggers 2010
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I posted this article, and I'd like to clarify my passing comment regarding the workmen's accents.
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In Belgium the unions are very rich and powerful, and so able to defy the masters that many of the smaller manufacturers, unable to resist, "are removing their works to other countries where the workmen's organizations are not so potential."
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I posted this article, and I'd like to clarify my passing comment regarding the workmen's accents.
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Now let us turn to the workmen's view of the question.
Mary Barton 2010
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Put another way, is being a crazy sex addict a job requirement in American public life, or a job hazard, for which Congress might put aside some special workmen's comp?
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