Word: coal
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Computerized inventory control has proved especially helpful to heavy industries like steelmaking. More than simply keeping track of large stockpiles of raw materials, such as iron ore and coking coal, steel firms also have to make sure that stocks of finished goods, ranging from rolled steel to ingots, sheet metal, cable and wire, are neither too large nor too small for projected demand. Says Albert E. Martz, a general manager for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh (1981 sales: $4.7 billion): "As a result of higher interest rates, we are trying to run leaner and operate closer to the bone...
...whatsoever. But this research failed to impress the K.G.B. Began was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in Magadan, a Siberian town not far from Alaska. Now, twelve years after he applied to emigrate, he lives in a small town near Moscow and earns his living shovelling coal, a skill be acquired in Magadan...
...hardly accidental that J.B.'s salvation was manifested in the return of his wife to "blow on the coal of the heart." MacLeish had been married since 1916 to Ada Hitchcock, his childhood sweetheart in Glencoe, Ill. (She survives him, as do two children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.) Ada also dominates MacLeish's last book of poems, The Wild Old Wicked Man (1968). "Ah, but a good wife!" he wrote. "To lie late in a warm bed/ (warm where she was), with your life/ suspended like a music in the head...
...predicament is something that Lee ponders as he sits by the coal stove in the kitchen of his neat, sturdy farmhouse. His feet are covered with thick blue socks; the Amish remove their shoes before entering the home. His blue eyes are gentle behind sensible, old-fashioned glasses, his beard is appropriately patriarchal, his voice surprisingly soft. "I'm a man who wakes every morning and thanks God for what is," Lee says. "I don't worry. I work. I believe that the Government of the U.S. is fair and just. It is not the Amish habit...
...county judge-executive wields substantial power, controlling most state and federal and tax money that enters the county. Many county residents charge that past incumbents have completely sold-out to the coal companies. One community activist recalls a former judge-executive's interactions with a large mining company: "They took him deep sea fishing, then wined him and dined him for a couple of weeks. They took him flying and he never did come back down...