Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your news 'fore the midnight bell. His brow furrowed deep, his countenance dour, The Christmas muse gave us a look more than sour. "I'll tell you my story of Christmas '81, And spare you the merriment, feasting and pun. Our journey begins in D.C.--Washington, (Where Santa brings coal more often than fun) The New Right announced all the bureaus were messed-up, And told the poor children: "For veggies, eat ketchup;" "But how," we asked, "did that hurt our Yuletide" "Where were the forces that strove on for our side...
...hollows and stubbly, once-farmed bottoms, all in the shadow of Appalachian mountains, which rise dark and gorgeous in every direction. But to the businessmen who brought the railroad through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields...
...quickly today, in the form, as predicted, of a call for a general strike and apparently scattered street demonstrations. The general strike, in all probability, does not mean that workers will stay home tomorrow, observers said; rather, Solidarity plans a call for workers to seize their workplaces--factories, shipyards, coal mines--and barricade themselves inside...
...argued that Europe could meet its energy needs by increasing use of nuclear power, Norwegian gas and U.S. coal, but the Europeans maintained that such alternatives were not available. Opposition to nuclear energy is widespread in Europe; Norway has been slow to develop its natural-gas potential; and the U.S. does not have the capacity to ship enough coal to Europe...
...thousands in Europe's depressed engineering industries. In France, the newspaper Le Monde observed: "The American arguments would have carried more weight if the U.S. had adopted a more responsible attitude on energy pricing; if several years ago they had developed the means to export their abundant coal reserves; and if, finally, Mr. Reagan had not in the name of the sacrosanct laws of the market, compromised the financing of synthetic fuels on the grounds of profit...