Word: coal
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...favors the SALT II treaty only if considerable new money is allocated for cruise missiles and other weapons, advocates a federal tax cut of $50 billion to $100 billion, opposes national health insurance, pushes strongly for nuclear power and the loosening of pollution laws to allow more use of coal, favors deregulation of oil with a provision that profits be plowed back to in crease production, and opposes gun control. His coup in luring right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie away from the Crane campaign has been important not so much for the money Viguerie might bring...
...Society provided some horrendous examples. A number of match factories in India are employing over 20,000 tots, some as young as five, for 16 hours a day, beginning at 3 a.m. In Colombia the work force includes 3 million children, many of whom labor in ill-ventilated, dangerous coal-mine shafts...
...Navajos do not get 25? per ton of coal from Utah International, but only 15?. Finally, when MacDonald talked about "shutting things down" at a Navajo energy project he was not referring to the Utah International operation, but to an oil pipeline that runs through the reservation...
...accommodate 150 tons of freight and haul it cheaply and cleanly along the New England coast, or south to Haiti, into the Caribbean, and back. As recently as the early 1900s, schooners carried most of New England's southbound ice, fish, lumber and granite, returning with molasses and coal. But not for 40 years has such a commercial vessel been built, and Ackerman intends to turn a profit with this one. "It better," he proclaims, "and it will." Like his vessel, Ackerman is a throwback. A fiercely independent Yankee out of Newmarket, N.H., with skilled hands and shoulders like...
...founders and chairman of its parent company. Sullivan has loosened the magazine in other ways as well. An understated but chatty "People" section keeps readers posted on the doings of Government and media luminaries, and an "Update" column concisely covers developments along such news-fronts as national health insurance, coal-burning rules and tax cut alternatives. A regular feature called "At a Glance" capsulizes the status of 24 major bills, regulations, court cases and other issues. The magazine has even begun to crack a smile on occasion. Not long ago, for instance, Correspondent Richard Corrigan parodied Howard Cosell...