Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S Yankelovich poll underlines the point. Some 73% of the respondents believed that the computer revolution would enable more people to work at home. But only 31 % said they would prefer to do so themselves. Most work no longer involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries...
Under martial law, farmers were supposed to receive coupons giving them special access to such essential goods as coal. But, like many reforms, that has not worked. Says Miroslaw: "I have coupons for 1,500 lbs. of coal, but I still have not got any, and winter is just beginning." Miroslaw thinks that farmers and workers may now cooperate more. One way is through barter: "Miners bring their coal and trade it for our potatoes. We want to be as independent of the state as we possibly can. Unfortunately, we cannot make our village into an independent republic...
Although the government continually proclaims that the country has produced 30 million tons more coal under martial law than during the period that Solidarity existed, Eugeniusz's family has yet to receive any for this winter. With temperatures already dropping below freezing, the only warmth in the high-ceilinged apartment comes from a small electric heater. Neither Eugeniusz nor Grazyna have much hope that the situation will improve. "Things might be better when our son is our age," says Grazyna...
Later that commitment took a chilling turn toward fanaticism. In May 1982 he tried to buy 1,000 Ibs. of dynamite in Hazard, Ky., a small coal-mining town 150 miles southeast of Louisville. Since this past July, he had been living in a spartan $26-a-night room at the Downtown Motel in Washington. While in Washington, he obtained a prescription for Thorazine, a powerful tranquilizer used for the treatment of psychotic disorders. Day after day during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According...
...quickly took a man advantage when a charging call sent Turner to the penalty box Ninety seconds later Mark Fusco relieved star Wildcat defenseman Peter Herms of the puck near the Harvard blue line and brother Scott took it away, zooming in on Pearson for his second coal of the game...