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...middle of the fourth period, there was no more coal left in the engine. A couple of crew-cut Navy boys had managed to steal it away from the Crimson...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Middies Dunk Laxmen, 10-9 | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...heritage on St. Patrick's Day three years ago at the "Shamrock Summit" in Quebec City, but their friendship has soured since then. Last week it bottomed out over the unresolved problem of acid rain. Much of the pollution that falls on Canada is caused by the burning of coal and other fuels by U.S. industries. In a speech in New York City, Mulroney angrily declared, "It's ruining our lakes, it's killing our rivers, it's ruining our forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Strains on a Friendship | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would cut 10,000 people, or 20%, of the State Council staff by the end of the year. The state-owned rail, oil, coal and nuclear industries would become public corporations under ministerial supervision but responsible for their own profits and losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China One for the Money, One Goes Slow | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

When most people think of an anti-union employer they probably think of a West Virginia coal operator or a Carolina textile mill. It is clear that anti-union employers are not confined to one region of the country or one set of tactics; some are more sophisticated then others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok on Labor | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them all out singly to a little patch of ground in the backyard, back to the coal-mining fields in Ohio." By way of a video, he is contemplating doing just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Goodbye to Glory | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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