Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wildcat strikes, the U.M.W. has reached the brink of disintegration-just when President Carter's energy policy calls for a two-thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming coal boom could well bust the union. Companies will either start negotiating contracts at a local, rather than national level, or simply turn to nonunion mines. Non-U.M.W. mines already provide 40% of the nation's coal...
...Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, looked on. "Thanks for coming, Chief," smiled Douglas. "This has to be a quorum." Though he looked frail and gaunt in his wheelchair, he made some appropriate ad lib remarks in a thin, reedy voice and promised...
These gals came on like gangbusters," Radcliffe track and field coach Pappy Hunt said Sunday, describing the team's performance in this, their second season of competition. Appropriately, the 'Cliffe runners saved the biggest bust for last, destroying the University of New Hampshire, 92-26, in their season finale held Friday in Harvard Stadium...
Getting It. At exactly 6 a.m. one morning last week, this bustling commerce was thrown into turmoil. Fifteen teams of federal agents-about 70 in all -swooped down on the houses of suspected narcotics traffickers in the biggest drug bust ever launched along the Tex-Mex border. In all, 62 people had been indicted. As the handcuffed prisoners were unloaded from official cars at the border patrol office in Rio Grande City (pop. 6,000), townspeople gathered to applaud and jeer, "You finally...
...across the U.S., in planes and at sea that it would be impossible for the Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises would then be able to counterattack the Soviet Union. The number of Russian antiaircraft weapons required to shoot the incoming cruises out of the sky would bust the Kremlin's military budget. No wonder the Pentagon is so fond of the drone...