Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bumptious Interior Secretary James Watt found himself at the center of a new embroilment last week. The cause of the row: Watt's alleged mismanagement of the Federal Government's coal-leasing program, which, according to a House Appropriations Committee report, permitted the energy industry to buy coal-leasing rights at "fire sale" prices and reap "windfall profits" at taxpayers' expense...
While many of the players are familiar with the game, they try not to take the match too seriously. Anyone from the Houses is encouraged to play and even casual passers by have been known to take a few swings, making the match what Coal drake describes as a "serious social event...
...theft victim, Erica S. Elsenberg '86, said yesterday that she went to the club at 6:15 p.m. to have dinner with a professor and sevoral other students and left her wallet in her coat when she left it in the controom. Two hours later she retrieved her coal and discovered her waller was missing...
...nothing but promise for the upper middle class Conways. Still youthful and exuberant, the Conway children dress up in old clothes for the party's charades, joking and laughing. The war is over. Robin is safe. Any unresolved problem presents only hope Made, the socialist, wants to see the coal miners strike end in nationalization. Hazel, the beautiful daughter, looks forward to choosing a husband from among her many suitors; Kay is beginning to write a novel. The family hovers on the verge of a future of unlimited potential...
Pepper entered the University of Alabama in the fall of 1918. To help pay his way, he worked from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. hauling coal and ashes at a power plant. He starred on the debating team, ran on the track squad, made Phi Beta Kappa, but lost his first election: for student-body president. When his oratorical skills took him to a contest in Chapel Hill, N.C., "it was the farthest north I had ever been...