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Workers Watch Benefits, Nest Eggs Crumble amid Enron's Collapse.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2002

By Susan Strother Clarke, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 27--Jan Molinell retired two years ago ready for the good life -- a life of freedom, maybe on the open road, where she would see the country from the driver's seat of a motor home.

Yet recently she has felt more like a prisoner, chained to her computer and television, watching $300,000 of her savings disappear in the collapse of Enron Corp.

Hours that Molinell hoped to spend behind the wheel of an RV have instead been spent at the doctor's office. She is being treated for anxiety and high blood pressure -- ailments brought on by stress, she says.

Like other retirees of Florida Gas Transmission Co., which is managed by Enron, Molinell is...

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