Word: coal
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...father was a coal miner, my mother was animmigrant...
...down from there to the lower atmosphere rather than the other way around. The energy that would be needed to move the ozone up is about 2 1/2 times all of our current global power use. If you could take every power plant in the world, every piece of coal and every oil tanker, the energy would be insufficient -- and then you'd still have the problem of how to get the ozone up there...
...consume so much oil and coal because they are so cheap," Bazzaz said. "Research can help to find economical and marketable alternatives...
...shek claimed that his Canton- based Kuomintang represented the entire republic, local warlords ruled much of the country, notably the huge northern territory of Manchuria. The Japanese, who had blocked a number of Russian incursions into Manchuria, were moving in to gain control of the region's plentiful coal and iron, which Japan sorely lacked...
...office murder in as many years. Last month in Paterson, N.J., an ex-postal employee wielding a sword and gun killed his supervisor and three others. Labor analysts struggled last week to explain why postal workers seem more prone to violence than workers in other high- stress fields, like coal mining or air-traffic control. One possible explanation: budget cuts that have reduced the screening and supervision of workers. Another could be the boot-camp conditions that exist for many workers. Delivering the mail is not necessarily a more dangerous profession than most, just an easier one for unstable workers...