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Once again, the determined Dole was thrown in the middle of the traditionally masculine world of coal-mine strikes and labor negotiations...
Moreover, everything in life that is dangerous, risky or bad disproportionately affects the poor: slum housing, street crime, small cars, hazardous jobs. By this logic, coal mining should be outlawed because the misery and risk and diseases of coal mining disproportionately fall on people who need the money. The sons of investment bankers do not go to West Virginia to mine. (They go there to run for the Senate...
...opted for Pequod, after Melville's ship, but Gordon contested that no one would want to drink at the Pequod. Instead, Gordon wanted a title associated with his native Seattle and went hunting for names in Washington state mountains. He liked the sound of a turn-of-the-century coal mine by the name of Starbo, which reminded Terry's literary penchant of Starbuck. Melville would cringe at the association...
...This is going to be a crisis throughout the state. We just happened to be the first, like a canary in a coal mine," she says...
...problem was clear last August at a meeting in the Roosevelt Room between Gore and the CEOs of the leading environmental groups, who presented him with a set of options to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from the two biggest sources, cars and coal-fired power plants. Curbing the pollution from coal would involve controversial moves against many electric utilities, but the U.S.--and Gore--had to show leadership by backing the idea, they insisted. The room grew suddenly frosty, and Gore, who in previous months had been speaking out on climate change and fighting internally for more antipollution funding, said...