Word: coale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purchase merely as a tax shelter, he got interested in building up what has become a globe-girdling enterprise with oil in the North Sea and Libya, an elaborate 20-year fertilizer deal with the Soviet Union and ownership in the U.S. of the Island Creek Coal Co., the nation's fourth largest producer...
...years from now, when depleted supplies--no matter how vigorous the exploration--will send shock waves through an economy even more deeply mired in crude. His dismissal of conservation as secondary shows that Reagan has little prescience, little desire even to consider the long-term. Increased emphasis on coal--also a finite resource, and the cause of acid rain to boot--and on nuclear energy (which has proved remarkably cost-inefficient, apocalyptic scenarios aside) show an unwillingness or inability to get a grip on the future destiny Reagan begs us to "recapture...
...addition, Queen's presence in Geneva will make it easy for him to open a Swiss Bank Account for funds derived from the impoundment of Iranian holdings in the U.S. As the first American released, Queen will have his pick of oil wells in Texas, coal mines in Wyoming, or a deluxe embassy mission in Washington...
...reduce their dependence on foreign oil. They promised to double the production and use of coal by the end of the decade, though officials in both Europe and the U.S. are skeptical about whether this can be done because of environmental restrictions and the high cost of converting industrial plants from oil to coal. The seven leaders also declared that the "role of nuclear energy has to be increased if world energy needs...
Morgan notes that the eight miners were smokers or ex-smokers and suggests that tobacco, not coal dust, was the real culprit. In an editorial accompanying the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor William Barclay is even blunter: "The taxpayer will be penalized twice; first in subsidizing those who grow tobacco and then in compensating coal miners who smoke tobacco...