Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unhappy men who fall in love with lonely and unhappy women. The stories are about people with little in the world going for them, with little to look forward to and little to expect out of life, who suddenly find themselves thrown together for some unexpected reason. In "Coal Black," for example, a miner discovers a young woman who has accidentaly wandered down into the mine. To avoid getting the girl in trouble--a local superstition forbids women to enter a mine--the miner helps her out through the dangerous back way out. By the time they reach the open...
...energy consumed on the new train per passenger mile is half that of automobile travel and a quarter that of air travel, according to the French. Since trains between New York and Washing ton run on electricity, they could be powered with domestic coal. Who, then, benefits from the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in Amtrak...
...FILM: "Coal Miner's Daughter"; Levin Ballroom; Friday...
...devastating blow to an economy that is already on the verge of collapse. While the nation labors under a $27 billion foreign debt that is still rising, national income is expected to fall by 15% this year. The statistics for the first half of 1981 are grim: coal output fell by 22%; copper, 11%; refined oil, 19%; animal feed, 14%; cattle herds, 7%; swine herds, 13%; exports to the West, 21.5%. Says John Hardt, an economist for the Congressional Research Service: "The Polish economy is 'growing' negatively at a rate that is unprecedented in peacetime...
...food and other scarce items. Those with friends or relatives abroad may get some of what they need via parcel post. Others resort to barter: a mechanic might trade two quarts of motor oil to a salesgirl for a pound of coffee; in Silesia, the miners are reportedly trading coal to farmers for meat. For exorbitant prices, or hard Western currency, almost anything can be gotten on the black market. Sample prices: blue jeans, $180; one pint of vodka...