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    :: Monday, July 28, 2003 ::

    In asbestos debate, it's money that talks WASHINGTON -- Thousands of workers unknowingly exposed to cancer-causing asbestos were sick and dying. The courts were clogged with lawsuits. Asbestos manufacturers were going bankrupt. And Congress was debating whether to create a fund to compensate victims.

    The year was 1982. Twenty-one years later, Congress is still debating the issue.
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