Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters seem to be running out of time: the measure will die if not ratified by 38 states before March 22, 1979. This week the amendment's backers will begin putting pressure on Congress to extend the deadline for ratification. On Wednesday, March 22, they will try to buttonhole Senators and Representatives; they intend to do so again on the 22nd of every month until Congress acts or the ERA expires. Although Justice Department lawyers believe Congress has the right to extend the deadline without requiring that the ratification process start over from scratch, some legal scholars disagree. Thus...
Arafat says, "There is nothing greater than to die...
...suspect the other of murder. The characters are all invited, through various ruses, to Indian Island as the guests of a host who never appears. Once settled on the island, the unknown host accuses all his guests in a tape recording of committing or acquiescing to murders. The guests die off, as the suspense builds and the characters realize that one of their number is a murderer...
...world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating. Flouting Taft-Hartley is about on the order of brushing a speck of coal dust out of the eye. "We may be harassed, fined, put in jail," says Jim Nuccetelli of Cokeburg, Pa., "some of us might even die. But we'd rather die on the surface than in the mines under that contract...
...true that over the years, the mines have become much safer. In 1948 there were 999 fatalities; last year 139 miners died on the job. The frequency of nonfatal accidents has dropped from 49.3 per million man-hours in 1948 to 36.07 in 1976. But mining still remains one of the most dangerous industrial occupations in the U.S. Says Barney Beard, president of Local 9111 in Waltonville, Ill.: "When I kiss my wife goodbye every day, she doesn't know if I'm going to get back home that night." Safety is also a consideration in the miners...