Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side is the Pittston Coal Company, a near parody of the worst excesses of corporate irresponsibility. Why should you support the miners against Pittston? It's not just that Pittston is an unabashed union buster. It's not just that it has a record of safety and environmental violations that is exceptional even by the standards of the coal industry. It's not just that Pittston was criminally negligent in the 1972 flash flood that destroyed sixteen West Virginia towns along Buffalo Creek, along with 125 of their residents. It's not just that Pittston got off the hook...
...other aspect of life on this fair planet: Los Angelenos whipping their sunny basin into a brown blur on the way to work every morning; South Americans burning and cutting their way through the rain forest in search of a better life; a billion Chinese, their smokestacks belching black coal smoke, marching toward the 21st century and a rendezvous with modernization...
...would have hoped that the Coal- ition would be supporting dialogue with peoplelike ourselves and General Mitzna rather thantrying to impose censorship on the Harvardcommunity," said David A. Guberman '71, nationalpresident of Friends of Shalom Achshav, a groupfavoring peaceful settlement with thePalestinians...
...University could do little to end a bitter labor dispute at a coal mining company by selling its stock in the corporation, investment experts say, but Harvard Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 could persuade the company to sit down at the bargaining table...
Financial analysts said that Stone, who sits on the coal mining company's 13-member board of directors, could be helpful in settling the six-month dispute...