Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chemicals, manufacturing and engineering; and steelmaking now accounts for only 11% of total company operating income. U.S. Steel will pay for Marathon probably with the $3 billion in bank credit lines it has built up, and the $2.5 billion in cash on hand partly from the sale of coal and cement properties. U.S. Steel Chairman David M. Roderick insisted that the Marathon purchase would not "diminish U.S. Steel's commitment to steel operations...
...Consumer Price Index in September was still rising at a double-digit pace. But producer (wholesale) prices for "intermediate" goods such as textiles and steel showed no rise at all in October, the first time that had happened in six years. Prices for raw materials such as cotton and coal actually dropped a bit for the third straight month. Interest rates were sliding too: major banks last week cut the prime rate (on loans to their best business customers) by half a point, to 161%. That is five points below the peak last winter...
...campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since his debut in politics four years ago, Robb relied on winks, nudges and noncommittal words to suggest empathy with each of the ill-fitting elements of his coalition: suburban moderates and independents, coal miners and union members, many rural conservatives and blacks. On issues he was all but indistinguishable from Cole man. Their chief dispute was about which of them more clearly deserved to be called conservative...
...officers and enlisted men, sent in groups of three or four to 2,000 small towns and villages. Instead of moving against strikers, the soldiers began to attack the supply and distribution bottlenecks that are strangling the economy. Some army teams, for example, uncovered caches of hoarded coal and consumer goods. One patrol forced a state farm to harvest 600 tons of potatoes that would otherwise have rotted in the field. Another fixed a village heating system. Walesa gave the operation a limited endorsement when he told the Zyrardow strikers, "We should make order at the bottom through the army...
...Barter Systems missive to some of its 25,000 clients earlier this year: WANTED: $300,000 WORTH OF DRIED MILK OR CORNFLAKES, IN RETURN FOR AN AIRPLANE OF EQUAL VALUE. In another case, Barter Systems helped a tire company trade a jet airplane for $1.3 million worth of coal...