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Until the beginning of this year, Consolidation Coal Group of Pittsburgh, owner of the Potomac mines, had a contract to sell 1.5 million tons of coal a year to Virginia Power. Mettiki, the only other high-volume producer in the area, had a contract for a million tons, including some extracted from right beneath Highway 50. With both contracts due to expire on Jan. 1, the utility saw a chance to pit the two against each other in an all-or-nothing bid to be the plant's major coal supplier. It asked both Consol and Mettiki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOUNT STORM, WEST VIRGINIA: COAL WAR | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...Virginia Power had also offered Consol and Mettiki the option of devising any other kind of bid they wanted, and the Maryland mine came through with a 10-year bid that Consol couldn't match. With coal prices still on a downward trend that began 19 years ago, fuel contracts of that length are all but unprecedented. But Mettiki vice president for operations Tom Wynne insists there was nothing nefarious about this. "We invested every inch of our effort for two years into getting this contract," he says. "We did our homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOUNT STORM, WEST VIRGINIA: COAL WAR | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...would go wrong was not working in Tooele. "Many people with whom we spoke concluded that the Army and the government could not be trusted to tell the truth," the report said. "Even its supporters express the belief that the Army lies." So last August the Army awarded a contract worth as much as $30 million to Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a private consulting firm, to help promote incineration in Tooele and other depot sites. A p.r. campaign followed. "We're safely eliminating chemical weapons," proclaims the banner flapping above the Army's storefront office. Inside are flyers describing the chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: WHEN FEAR MAKES SENSE | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...Clinton having sex--were meant to test the troopers' credibility, Starr associates say. There's ample reason to doubt the officers. Two of the troopers admitted lying about a car accident. And in an affidavit obtained by TIME, trooper Ronald Anderson says three of his colleagues were given a contract by Arkansas lawyer Cliff Jackson guaranteeing them jobs paying $100,000 annually for seven years in return for making allegations in December 1993 that they arranged and covered up Clinton dalliances. Jackson, a longtime Clinton opponent, denies the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAS STARR GONE TOO FAR? | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...thoroughly Indian) gave Perry an opportunity to learn more about the local Native American culture. And making her a woman "let me see whether I could write about 51% of the population." He has nearly finished another Whitefield novel, he says, and has three more to go on a contract with his publisher. "Then," he says, "Random House will release my children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THIS DICK IS A JANE | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

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