The compensation relates to miners suffering conditions such as respiratory disease and vibration white finger from the 1970s onwards.

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So while the white mouthpiece of the gay community shakes an angry finger at intolerance and bigotry in their blogs and on television, blacks and other minorities see the dirty laundry.

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After a few days of finger pointing and headline grabbing turmoil, the White House changed course and agreed to a different date.

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With all due respect to Steve Jobs as an innovator, how many more times can he mount the big stage, tap icons and re-size pictures by flicking his finger while preaching world domination, before it becomes white noise?

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There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.

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