Word: coaling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mourners organized a candlelight vigil for the 12 coal miners who died following Monday's underground explosion, leaders of the company that owns the troubled mine held a press conference and described the mishaps that resulted in the false report of the mens' survival. Yet while company officials spent an hour and a half explaining what went wrong-and apologizing for the miscommunications-they wouldn't answer a question at the heart of the tragedy: why did the number of safety violations at the mine nearly triple since their firm, International Coal Group (ICG), bought the Sago mine and reopened...
...Assiniboine/Lakota leader Hank Adams, who spearheaded a drive for Northwestern salmon-fishing rights. Lafayette had checked repeatedly to make sure King wanted the hardscrabble white groups to be included, and the answer was always simple: "Are they poor?" The motor lodge's meeting room was dotted with coal miners, some of whom braved fierce criticism from Appalachian rivals, and one white participant, Peggy Terry, admitted being raised in a Kentucky Klan family. After moving to Montgomery during the bus boycott, she had gone once on a lark to see "that smart aleck nigger come out of jail," and the actual...
...assumption that their rivals have some kind of power over them. “Don’t rub it in our faces that we didn’t go to the Spence School for Girls,” the critics shout, en masse, waving their newsie caps, coal-soaked handkerchiefs, and sickles.But essentially, I’ve always hated Marx. Mostly because of his serial infidelities and his penchant for coffeehouses. But more to the point, he just seemed to give the rich much more credit than they really deserved. The scene represented in “Scene?...
...gifts to avoid: economics text books, a padded toilet seat, lingerie (while this may be more acceptable at later stages in the relationship, chances are this will be awkward if you are just trying to spark things up), a sewing kit (unless she has expressed a particular interest), or coal, even in jest...
Gross's first customers, all businesses with idle roof space, will test the system next year. Gross can't compete economically with utilities burning coal or natural gas. But installing the Sunflower costs about half as much as conventional solar, or about $4.50 a watt, with a minimum order of 100 kilowatts. If that price drops to half that within five years and production scales up, Energy Innovations could be positioned to sling stones at King Coal...