Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a study released last week by Management Information Services, a Washington-based research organization, legislation to reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions from coal-fired utilities would result in a net gain of up to 195,000 American jobs and $13 billion in annual sales for U.S. companies. "Far from hurting the industry," the report says, "the large purchase of capital equipment and supporting goods and services . . . will provide a much needed shot...
...benefits would not be evenly distributed, however. States producing high- sulfur coal, among them Kentucky, Illinois and Pennsylvania, would come up losers. But some coal-burning states in the Midwest would be among the biggest winners. Michigan, for example, a heavily industrialized state that would be in a position to manufacture pollution-control equipment, could pick up nearly 14,000 new jobs and more than $1 billion in annual corporate revenues...
ALSO IN THE HOUSE is Moe Axelrod, the boarder, a small time drifter laden with a heart of coal. His leg was shot off in the Great War, and he is as bitter as we expect him to be: he clumps about the apartment in his double-breasted pinstripe suit and porkpie hat, spouting off a ridiculous agglomeration of cynical street idiom: "You ain't sunburned. You hoid...
...Berkhin's defense with two articles setting out the details of his arrest, 14-day detention and the police search of his apartment. Pravda charged that Berkhin's only crime was that he had done his job too well, riling local authorities by exposing government corruption in a coal-mining region of the Ukraine. The paper concluded that the secret police had committed "gross violations of socialist legality" in their treatment of Berkhin...
Sakharov's release seems in keeping with Gorbachev's calls for glasnost, or openness. That campaign was evident as the Soviet media promptly reported a major methane-gas explosion that claimed an undisclosed number of lives in a Ukrainian coal mine. Beyond such candor, Gorbachev seeks what he has called a "fresh voice" to provide criticism in the one-party Soviet Union. The Soviet leader may hope that Sakharov will play that role. If not, Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda...