Bowen made offhand comments during the trial about how his father might have been exposed to asbestos at Ingalls Shipyard.

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Gretchen then wrote a thank-you note to Microsoft: "I felt like Laura Ingalls Wilder, " the author of novels about pioneer families.

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Ingalls illuminates the mercurial mood swings in this surreal yet satisfying production.

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Rather, they occupy a place in the minds of Americans everywhere, thanks to the prairie literature of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cather.

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That would be bad news for prime contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries, which owns the yard in Virginia where all U.S. Navy carriers are assembled.

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The head of warship maker Huntington Ingalls Industries is fond of pointing out that conditions in his shipyards today reflect decisions the government made seven years ago.

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The company has become a landmark in Mansfield, population 1, 296, but the area is perhaps better known for the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum and home, where the author wrote her "Little House" books.

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The teams in Saturday's other semifinal are Massachusetts-Lowell (28-10-2) ...and Yale, whose Bulldogs (20-12-3) play at Ingalls Rink on their campus in New Haven, all of eight miles down Whitney Avenue from Quinnipiac.

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The author won a number of awards for his work, including the Hans Christian Andersen medal for illustration in 1970 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association in 1983.

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Ingalls blasted the stage with colored light.

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