Word: coal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, saddled with a four game winless streak, the Harvard men's soccer team (4-3-1 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy) is in danger of having its stocking filled with coal. The Crimson looks as if it might return to the consistent mediocrity of the Getman years...
...that when the U.S. took the land in the Southwest, there was a large Mexican population there which was promised full citizenship under the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty? How many Harvard students know that in the 1930s, the U.S. government contracted Mexican laborers to build the railroads, to mine the coal mines and to work the fields of the Southwest? In 1954, Congress made this program...
...founder of Solidarity who is now President of Poland, could be met only by "printing money." That, says Walesa, would "ruin all our achievements so far." Suchocka's government has resorted to the hard-boiled capitalist expedient of threatening to fire strikers at an auto-parts plant and a coal mine. The threat helped end those strikes, but future relations between labor and management are still problematic...
...Pulitzer nomination, a George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Worth Bingham Prize. Since bringing his energies to TIME, he has chronicled the illegal trade in elephant ivory, brought attention to the endangered spotted owl, documented corruption in college basketball and scrutinized the plight of West Virginia coal miners...
...deepest layer of Prague is spiky, medieval, dark with coal dust. For years Vaclav Havel could look out from his dilapidated apartment building, across the fast, shallow Vltava River, and see the castle on the hill -- Hradcany, the high, elaborate complex that dominates the city. He could cross the river by the 14th century Charles Bridge, lined on either side with beseeching, tormented statuary -- church fathers, age-blackened saints...