Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back home that night." Safety is also a consideration in the miners' objections to any changes in their cherished health benefits, which have long been completely free. The operators insist that the workers pay up to $700 a year in deductibles and agree to some other cost-cutting shifts, such as limits on payments to widows. "I don't expect to live long enough to retire," says Illinois Miner Bob Colyer. "So I want my family taken care of. If I die and my wife makes more than $200 a month, she'll lose all medical benefits...
...year, a two-week paid vacation and ten extra days of paid holidays. A miner can work six or even seven days a week if he wants to, but he generally doesn't. Many miners take three-day weekends, especially during hunting and fishing season. It does not cost much to live in the hollows, and miners do not have a passion for accumulating money, except in preparation for a strike. They feel that generations of miners have purchased their rural amenities with sweat and blood...
...those who think gas deregulation would result in unchanged or even lower prices--be warned. From 1972 to 1977 the cost of gas per 1000 cubic feet (mcf) for LoVaca's 400 clients, including both industries and cities, soared from 36 cents to $2.05. In Crystal City where the average annual per capita income is $1600, the cost of a hot shower, a warm house, and gas-cooked food was just too high...
...INDULGE in a little hyperbole, the voracious corporate wolves have gotten to the Senate on this issue. Congressman Bob Eckhardt (D-Tex.), having just emerged from a meeting in which House members had discussed their reactions to and interpretations of the Senate "compromise," estimates that their bill would unjustifiably cost the consumer an additional $3.5 billion. Eckhardt attributed this "bonanza" for the gas industry to "more generous treatment in connection with drilling in closer proximity to existing wells," and to the fact that the Senate would allow new reservoirs found on old OCS leases to qualify for higher prices...
DiCara said yesterday he is running for treasurer "because the inefficient and archaic practices of the current administration have cost the people of this state tens of millions of dollars...