Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SUMMER RECEDES from the British Isles, the six-month old coal strike lumbers on with no end in sight. Perhaps, in another time, winter's approach would have scared Britain's National Coal Board (NCB), the directorate of the state-owned industry, into granting concessions to the striking miners. The sight of dwindling coal in cellar bins along with the first frost on the windows would have prodded management into giving in to calls for higher wages or more paid holidays...
...list is acid rain, which is threatening Canada's important fishing and timber industries−and which many Canadians blame on the U.S. The Reagan Administration contends that the link between acid rain and sulfur-dioxide emissions that drift northward from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest has not yet been proved. Mulroney, however, has promised to push the issue with the White House, most likely after the U.S. election in November. The Liberal government committed itself to halving emissions on its side of the border by 1994, but Canadian officials doubt that Washington will do the same...
...Congress for years. Despite reams of study on its polluting effects, President Reagan opposes new federal regulations, saying that more study is needed. In the Ohio River Valley, where much of the pollution originates before prevailing winds carry it eastward, industry views controls as prohibitively expensive. The high-sulfur coal-mining companies there are worried that restrictions will prompt a switch to low-sulfur coals produced...
...York, whose glorious Adirondack lakes are thought to be among the prime victims of acid rain, last week became the first state to pass a law to reduce acid rain. Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill ordering industries that burn coal in the state to cut sulfur dioxide emissions 30% by 1991. The Business Council of New York State opposed the law, claiming it would raise rate payers' electric bills while not solving the acid-rain problem. The dilemma is that the pollution knows no boundaries. Indeed, environmentalists say that New York produces less than a third...
...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...