Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for the omnipresent coal trucks and perhaps a glimpse of scarred mountaintop through the trees, it would be tough for an outsider driving the narrow twisting roads of Martin County. Kentucky, to guess that the area is the second largest coal producing county in the country. The mines are not immediately visible from the road, but the coal companies have utilized a majority of the county's land to provide about 5000 jobs and haul out well over 9 million tons of coal each year...
Although Martin Countains may not be crazy about some of the side effect of heavy mining--such as changed water patterns and flattened mountains--they are grateful for the jobs the coal companies provide. As one local minister puts it. "The coal companies are here to stay and we have to work with them to make things better...
...kick against the coal companies," says 59-year-old disabled miner Herbert Charles. His hands are covered with scars from bouts with the timbers he used to place to shore up the mines' roofs, and he has black lung. His father and four brothers died of the disease but as he says. "If it weren't for the coal companies I would have had a real hard time finding...
...fact, Jenkins was born in Wales, the son of an ambitious coal miner who was later a Labor M.P. But to counter the carpetbagging label, Jenkins sounded a decidedly Scottish note in his campaign speeches as time went on. He pledged that he would spend "the rest of my political life" representing Hillhead, and that he would not dash away to a safer English constituency at the first chance to move south. He supported the granting of greater autonomy for Scotland, including the formation of a regional assembly with authority to tax and with substantial legislative power. Jenkins pledged...
...banks, brokerage houses and virtually all other kinds of financial institutions to sign up for tax-sheltered Individual Retirement Accounts. The Fidelity Group of mutual funds in Boston has produced a slick color film about its IRAs that is now playing at workplaces that range from factory floors to coal mines. In Birmingham, Ala., the Robinson-Humphrey Co. brokerage firm rented a hotel ballroom to tell people of the virtues of IRAs. Western Federal Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles calls its retirement plans "fat-cat accounts" and promotes them with posters, balloons and badges that depict a smirking feline...