Word: coal
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...Another question raised by the latest round of changes was whether Hodel's return to Interior would revive the tensions between the Administration and environmentalists that Clark had done so much to ease. As an aide to Watt, Hodel had been an ardent champion of more oil and coal exploration and other commercial development of federal lands. While an official of a federal power authority in the Pacific Northwest, he denounced the environmental movement as having "fallen into the hands of a small, arrogant faction dedicated to bringing our society to a halt." Although he patiently listened to conservationists make...
BRITAIN. Samuel Brittan expects an increase in growth from last year's 1.5% to 3.5% in 1985. British coal miners have now been on strike for eleven months, but he says that is having a minor effect on the economy because there have been no fuel shortages and workers are drifting back to the pits. He expects inflation to fall from 4.8% in 1984 to 4.5%. In Brittan's view, the government of Margaret Thatcher is quietly "giving the modest stimulus to the economy that some of its critics are asking for." In fact, bank credit has been growing faster...
Chutzpah, one might say, but it comes naturally to McGowan. The son of a railroad union organizer in the coal country of eastern Pennsylvania, he worked his way through college, attended Harvard Business School on the G.I. Bill, then went to work for Mike Todd, the Broadway and Hollywood showman. McGowan subsequently launched several firms in electronics and computers, retired rich at 39 and took a trip around the world. Bored, he moved into the field of venture capital. That was how he discovered a nearly bankrupt little company that was trying to start microwave phone service between Chicago...
...Spee. Away Delphic, Phoenix, Fly, and A.D., Those severed ties should not give alarm, We leave you some coal to keep yourselves warm. A shiny new gavel for Brian Melendez, Who hopes all the Council will do just as he says. Those eager dissenters now have reason for pause. Their leader awaits them with copious bylaws. To the Quad folk--from your dearly beloved Dean Fox, Alas, look ye forward to many empty socks. And although good ole Cabot will renovate soon. Those poor folks up there cannot transfer till June. While up at NoHo, they"ll tear...
...disaster in Bhopal was the latest in a series of major industrial mishaps around the world, some with immediate fatal results, others with lingering, long-term consequences. Last week in Taiwan, leaking methane gas in a coal shaft triggered an explosion that killed 33 miners. Two weeks earlier, a liquefied-natural-gas explosion claimed 452 lives near a Mexico City shantytown. As the list of such man-made tragedies grows, concern is rising everywhere that industrial safety standards are often higher in the U.S. than in developing countries, and that some U.S. firms may have opened plants abroad to take...