Word: coal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When most people think of an anti-union employer they probably think of a West Virginia coal operator or a Carolina textile mill. It is clear that anti-union employers are not confined to one region of the country or one set of tactics; some are more sophisticated then others...
...many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them all out singly to a little patch of ground in the backyard, back to the coal-mining fields in Ohio." By way of a video, he is contemplating doing just that...
...milking helped out, each giving one kiss, real and chocolate, to a pleasantly surprised (male) Santee. And Kevin J. Dolsky '88 said his roommate received a backrub as a gift. "And we got to watch," he added. Some of the other gifts found on campus included a bag of coal and a stash of animal crackers and condoms...
...gross national sports product (GNSP). The New York City- based magazine says Americans last year sank $47.25 billion, or more than 1% of total GNP, into sports. That puts sports just below the $49.5 billion motor vehicles industry but well ahead of the $38.9 billion U.S. petroleum and coal business. The GNSP includes estimates of spending on legal sports betting ($2.7 billion), ski lessons, rentals and lift tickets ($1.13 billion) and purchases of baseball and other trading cards ($200 million...
...around us there was this twisted mass of wreckage and tons of coal spread around. And then there was this lady's shoe. It was incredible, just haunting." That was the way Doug Llewelyn, an executive producer for Los Angeles-based Westgate Productions, described what it was like to view the sunken wreck of the ocean liner Titanic at first hand. Recalls Yann Keranflech, a member of the $2.5 million French expedition that last summer salvaged some 800 artifacts from the wreck: "You think about the victims. If you find a pair of shoes or a suitcase, you ask yourself...