Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every year tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides generated by U.S. coal- fired power plants drift northward to fall on Canadian forests and lakes as acid rain. Ronald Reagan has mostly resisted Canada's repeated requests that the U.S. clean up the skies. Last week, 14 months after a joint U.S.-Canadian commission recommended that the U.S. spend $5 billion to find cleaner methods for burning coal, the President promised to commit half that amount, $2.5 billion over five years. The belated gesture should smooth the way for Reagan's visit next month to Ottawa, where environmentalists plan...
...shirts sound off with letters dense as coal and inches high. They are oversized Ts, big enough to sleep two stevedores comfortably and colored like signal flags. Wearable broadsides: CHOOSE LIFE. HEROIN FREE ZONE. PRESERVE THE RAIN FORESTS. EDUCATION NOT MISSILES...
...after all, that weird guy who did those soup cans a quarter of a century (was it really that long?) ago. The working-class hero, son of an immigrant Czech coal miner named Warhola in Pittsburgh, who for a time acquired a court that seemed almost Habsburgian in scope if not in distinction: the Velazquez dwarfs of the Factory. The guy in the photo with Madonna, Liza, Jackie O. The aesthete who said money was the most important thing in his life and in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, thus offering a tacky sort of transcendence...
...coal miner is not like another just because they're both covered in black. It's about contradictions, differences...
Millions of wheezing, watery-eyed, coughing West Germans have learned that they share more than a common border and language with East Germany. They also share pollution, notably the kind that comes from East German power plants, which burn lignite, a high-polluting form of coal. Last week a stagnant high- pressure system trapped foul East German air over West Germany for several days...