Word: caved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While catastrophic cave-ins are relatively rare in the U.S., about 260,000 former miners suffer from another killer: black lung disease. One reason could be that mine operators routinely circumvent air-safety standards established in 1969 to regulate the amount of coal dust in the mines. Now the government is cracking down. In Virginia last week, 13 coal companies and 15 people pleaded guilty to falsifying air samples to understate levels of coal dust. The companies face fines of as much as $500,000 each. The individuals could be imprisoned for five years and fined $250,000. Prosecutors...
...years ago, after pre-frosh weekend, I made two decisions. I would cave in to parental pressure and go to Harvard, and that would be the last stereotypical Asian American act I would ever commit in my life. From then on, I was going to avoid any action that would could label me a stereotypical Asian American...
...skirt in Mantegna's engraving of the Virgin and Child, arguably the most beautiful print made by any Italian during the Renaissance and only to be rivaled by Durer, support a protective gesture of inexpressible tenderness, in which the Madonna seems to be drawing her son back into the cave of her own body...
...recent tour, Tollini pointed out some of the contraceptive stars, such as Violet, slouched in the entrance to her cave munching on leaves. Since 1986, Violet has been taking human birth control pills, straight from the supermarket...
...open format its like a play with the script being made up at the same time. There is also theatre. Theatre is from when people though a bear was going to come and eat them there are certain parts of the tribe that ventured forth from the cave to slay the bear. When they succeeded in doing this, they returned to the cave and told the rest of the people--that stayed at home and couldn't watch--how they did it. At that period of time and still on a subconscious level, all things were endowed with spirit, with...