Word: coal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case for a federal energy tax is many-sided and obvious. As demand for petroleum has softened, drilling activity has begun to slow. At the same time, the drooping price of crude has reduced the lure of costly alternative energy projects like coal gasification and shale-oil mining...
...ownership of Fluor shares, one must presume that Harvard's interest was in St. Joe Minerals, which was the object of Fluor's friendly takeover bid in April of 1981. It doesn't take much of a political observer to know that Fluor's work on South Africa's coal gasification plans has enabled that racist regime to further sustain itself, reason enough to sell, of course...
Ironically, Fluor is starting to come back into favor among some analysts and although its lead, coal, zinc and gold properties are still depressed, owing to worldwide prices plummeting in all of those markets, it is probably the lowest cost producer in most of those fields, giving it a solid chance to rebound from its current low position. But, no, Harvard held on to it all during its slide, and waited until it just about hit its 52-weeks-low to unload, thus cheating the endowment of a solid profit, and ignoring a chance to make a needed statement about...
...federal and six state inspections; just a few days before Lillie Hamilton's sons blew themselves up, in fact, they had spent eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude that says, 'This is mining, you have to expect accidents.' " More and more, in dark hollows all over central Appalachia, that fatalism is having disastrous consequences. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Mink Branch
...that the tab for cleaner ah-has been reduced productivity, the new bill does not go along with a demand that additional antipollution measures be subjected to cost-benefit analyses. Such tests would try to determine whether the extra benefits to society derived from, say, putting smokestack "scrubbers" on coal-burning plants are really worth then-cost...