Word: coale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy is concerned, we have built a madhouse and continue to live according to the laws of a madhouse." Conservative Deputies warned that society was "slipping into a swamp even more boggy than in the stagnation period." At one point Deputy Teimuraz Avaliani, from a Siberian coal-mining region, even urged the parliamentarians "not to vote for Gorbachev under any circumstances...
...standing on the planet earth," says photographer Anthony Suau, recalling his trip last month to Copsa Mica. "It was as if a gigantic bottle of ink had spilled on the town." Copsa Mica's chief industry is tire production, and 24 hours a day its smokestacks heave out noxious, coal-based clouds that cake faces and fingers, cars and houses, grass and trees with endless soot...
Carril grew up as a no-car-garage guy in a $21-a-month apartment hard by Quinn's Coal Yard in the hills of eastern Pennsylvania. His father, an immigrant from Castile, Spain, spent long days, weeks and years shoveling coal into an open-hearth furnace run by Bethlehem Steel. What Pete remembers most clearly about this Depression-era environment was the ethnic bonding prevalent among the Spanish, Polish and Italian inhabitants. "We always had food to eat," he says. "Families stuck together." The absence of material possessions was an advantage, Carril believes. "It made us innovative, creative...
...Kazakhstan many atomic-weapons tests have been conducted, but the people were never consulted. So there is a conflict now between the republic and the center. There is also the tragedy of the Aral Sea, which is dying. Prices for the republic's wool, coal, metallurgy and grain are set by the center, and the republic loses. Kazakhstan should decide its own cultural and economic problems, except those it willingly gives over to the center, such as the defense of borders or railroad lines...
After years of squabbling over efforts to update the 1970 clean-air law, Democratic leader George Mitchell last week got the Senate and the Bush Administration to compromise. Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, wary of the threat the new bill's acid-rain provisions could pose to the coal industry, supports...