Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British pound. There is no question that a lower price for the dollar would reduce U.S. imports and increase exports: if a dollar buys fewer yen, then Americans would need more dollars to buy a Toyota, while Japanese would pay fewer yen to purchase American coal. By coincidence or not, while the dollar has been gradually declining in recent months, the U.S. trade deficit has begun to narrow also. It was $13.4 billion in June and only $9.9 billion in August...
...fellow, but, like his neighbors, he was earning not much more than $30 a month. Then, in response to a daring new government policy that encouraged country people to develop their own moneymaking projects, Ju began building and marketing metal frames for the battery chargers used by local coal miners. Soon demand for his high-quality but economical merchandise started to snowball. Customers multiplied; orders boomed. By 1984, thanks to his success in manufacturing a product that the country badly needed, Ju had amassed a considerable fortune...
...recent negotiations, some of the mining companies have come close to agreeing to the black union's demand for an across-the-board 22% wage increase, while others have not. At week's end a strike was due to begin Sunday night at five gold mines and two coal mines employing a total of 60,000 black miners. In the past such walkouts have led to the firing of large numbers of striking workers...
Mitterand: Shhhhhhh! Will you keep it down. If your paranoia about that leaked to the public, they would all realize how much of a threat the strike really is. Just remember the plan. Let us distract attention from the coal, diamond and gold miners with out economic sanctions. You may not have to worry too much anyway. Cyril Ramaphosa [general secretary of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers] says only 240,000 belong to the union, and your Chamber of Mines reports that figure at only 83,000. It may not go off too well...
...overwhelming majority of delegates also demonstrated the resentment many miners feel toward Prime Minister Thatcher's Conservative government and the National Coal Board. They approved a motion to congratulate the leadership for its handling of the disastrous strike and made a rule change enabling Scargill to remain president of the N.U.M. for life. British Energy Secretary Peter Walker has condemned the union's actions, warning that "every miner who values the freedom this country offers and has no desire to turn Britain into a Communist state should recognize what the mineworkers' conference is all about...