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Out-of-state insurance executives, right-wing political consultants and multimillionaire conservative donors are suddenly blessing the working people of California with

Teresa Y. Williford has earned a place in the history books, becoming the first person to ever win a worker’s compensation case based on mental stress against a major telecommunications company.

If television news covered business and industry the same way it covers murder and mayhem, we’d turn on our sets every night and catch up on what’s happening in the Great Telecom-munications War of the 1990s. Take these examples:

Concerns raised by CWA about the dangerous impact of the proposed takeover of MCI Communications Corp. by WorldCom Inc. are gaining attention and support, both in the United States and internationally.

The first round of bargaining between CWA and US Airways got underway Dec. 9 and 10 at the company’s headquarters in Arlington, Va.