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  1. BUSINESS, Page 45Business NotesLABORNo Peace For a Veteran
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  4.     John Beverly, 42, a Viet Nam veteran, suffers from
  5. posttraumatic stress disorder, which includes sudden flashbacks of
  6. battlefield terror. Last week two administrative-law judges in
  7. Wisconsin awarded Beverly $85,700 in worker's compensation after
  8. finding that co-workers at the Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed
  9. on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly
  10. claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and
  11. even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip
  12. of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually
  13. he became so anxious, the judges found, that he could no longer
  14. hold a job. The Miller company, which would pay the penalty, plans
  15. to appeal the ruling.