Word: coal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judge, "but no major initiatives have been implemented." The economy continued to shrink in 1996 and the Kremlin's bold tax-collection initiative has run out of steam. Yeltsin has been utterly unable to keep his promise to pay the back salaries due state employees ranging from teachers to coal miners. While his aides are saying the president could return to his desk as early as January 28, "That is very much a hope rather than an assumption they are making," says Quinn-Judge...
...fighting. Other friends and relatives trade Jackie tales like essential bits of oral history. They tell about that time when Jackie stole the pickup truck or dynamited the beech tree or bashed in the windshield or held the church congregation hostage. Says Kay's father, Chester Williams, a retired coal miner and preacher: "He felt like he could do anything and get by with...
...That was in 1961. Three times since then, he has tried to regain his seat; three times he failed. His patience paid off Tuesday on his 74th birthday as the Republican won the sentimental votes of thousands of Democrats to edge state senator Charlotte Pritt, an honest-to-goodness coal miner's daughter. When inaugurated next year, Underwood will hold the distinction of becoming both the youngest and oldest governors in state history. As he began his first term in 1956, he was a fresh-faced 34-year-old forced to deal with terrible unemployment caused by mechanization...
West Virginia is a poor state. At its most prosperous, coal was king. But as machines replaced miners, and the unemployed couldn't find work, families left the state in droves. So many fled that after the 1990 Census, West Virginia lost a congressional district, leaving only three. Though the state economy is slowly rebuilding, the electorate remains solidly Democratic, testament to the strength of the party's lower-class and labor-class roots: its voters haven't elected a Republican Senator since 1956 or a Republican Congressman since...
...Democrat running here must overcome historical precedent to win: the Equality State has not supported a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and has not had a Democrat in either house of Congress since 1976. Wyoming has the smallest population of any state and is the leading coal producer in the U.S. Despite the fact that Democrat Bill Clinton has twice vacationed in the Grand Tetons near Jackson Hole and that 18-year veteran Alan Simpson is retiring, Wyoming residents are considered likely to send Republicans back to Congress this year...