Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short months the thick-skinned man who manages 550 million acres of public land has stunned environmentalists and lawmakers with the way he has decisively altered policymaking at Interior. Watt has accelerated the sale of oil and gas leases, moved to expedite the surface mining of coal, opened up wilderness areas to allow exploration of strategic minerals, halted the acquisition of more lands for national parks. He says he wants a bold, sensible program that will renew the country's growth. Says one of Watt's top aides, Stan Hulett: "Nobody could have survived making these proposals...
...coal strike looms...
ENGAGEMENT REVEALED. George Wallace, 61, former three-time Alabama Governor and independent presidential candidate; and Lisa Taylor, 32, country-and-western singer turned executive of a family-owned coal firm; in Jasper...
...acquisition also looks promising for Sohio, the U.S.'s 14th largest refiner. The company owns 33% of the trans-Alaska pipeline and has been turning North Slope crude into cash. Last year it had profits of $1.8 billion on revenues of $ 11 billion. Sohio, which already owns some coal and uranium mining operations, has been looking around recently for profitable places to spend its spare cash...
...white giving each other the fish-eye in elevators; making great sudden arcs on the sidewalk; or even less subtle, the dinner party conversation between black and white that zeroes in on The Black and White Question like a surface-to-air missile. The lily-white athletic club. The coal-black radio station. It is odd to think that this is where the civil rights movement of the 1960s has wound up, or down. But as any strict constructionist will adjure, the civil rights laws were enacted to allow for equal chances, not equal smiles; so it should hardly shock...