Word: coaling
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...adjective of praise, I?m going to get out my riveter and hunt the critic down.) In larger truth, we live in an age of contempt. Like a talk-show host or a Presidential candidate, a critic of the popular arts can?t go wrong handing out lumps of coal and mockery. (Or, for that matter, lumps of Colin Mochrie.) But there?s good stuff out there. And as I age, grow decades past the youth in which every critic thinks he?s discovering the Pythagorean Theory with each new movie or song, I find that...
Members of Gumboots donned their usual coal miner’s uniforms and knee-high rain boots as they performed South African numbers. The group’s name comes from black miners who communicated by slapping their boots since they were not permitted to speak in the mines...
...fact, think of these unpopular figures as the canaries of capitalism. They precede us into the coal mine of greed, going farther than the rest of us dare, showing us where far enough becomes too far and perishing in the effort. They are martyrs of capitalism, dying financially so that others may prosper. Does no one have the simple guts to tell this truth...
...take a look inside the Network Operations Center (NOC) of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF). Dispatchers at the railway's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, sit hunched over computers 24/7, directing trains for the nation's second largest railroad and tracking shipments of everything from coal to Wal-Mart clothing. Nine megascreens monitor the flow of goods on 200,000 railcars across 33,000 miles of track--Chinese merchandise rolling east from California, Midwest grain heading west and then to Asia, FedEx packages crisscrossing the nation. Last year this "old economy" business racked up record revenues...
...number of petitioners heading to the capital has increased dramatically over the past few years. Though President Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have made mingling with common folk a signature of their new administration?from shaking hands with aids patients to chatting with coal miners?the common touch hasn't trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens...