Word: coals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago that he threatened to resign. Gorbachev has played this trump card on at least two other occasions to rally support. But this time the conservative onslaught was especially fierce, particularly from Alexander Melnikov, party boss from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, one of the sites of coal-mining strikes that swept the nation last July. In an article in the liberal weekly Moscow News, journalist Danil Granin, who was a guest at the plenum, expressed alarm that "here for the first time, not at a factory meeting but from the mouths of leaders of major party committees...
...setting up a program to tax the use of all fossil fuels. The size of the tax should vary according to how much carbon is released into the atmosphere when a particular fuel is burned. That would encourage a shift in consumption patterns away from high-pollution fuels like coal to cleaner ones like natural...
...other members of a high-level U.S. mission that was searching for ways to assist Poland in building a free-market economy. Arriving in Warsaw two weeks ago, the delegation of Bush Administration officials, business executives, labor leaders and academics fanned out on scouting trips, touring farms, factories, coal mines and training centers and surveying the Polish telephone system...
...environment. Though conservatives and conservation are linguistically related words, most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that we can, for in an increasingly Green-conscious world...
...estimated 1,000 of 1,200 basic consumer products are in short supply. When Siberian coal miners went on strike last July, one of their most impassioned demands was for soap...