Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedy and horror. Yes, something awful happens to Garp's children; but to have one's emotions manipulated as skillfully, one would have to go back to the riding accident suffered by Tony and Brenda Last's son in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust...
...fact, they might have edited the maxim to read "Great" hitting will make any pitching look sick," for when the basepath dust had finally cleared after the second game, the club-thumping, ball-mashing Quakers from Pennsylvania had swept the Harvard baseball team in a doubleheader...
...ranking assistants, W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, had authorized the unlawful surveillance activities; and the Criminal Division in the department elected to proceed with the prosecution of the three principals with the full approval of President Carter. Yet another relic from the Watergate era had bitten the dust, offering some cause for reassurance that the blindfold of Justice was back in place--at least at first glance...
...undefended Stevens workers suffer terrible working conditions, chronically low wages and starvation-level pension payments. Thousands are slowly dying of the disease byssinosis, or brown lung, caused by cotton-dust levels three times higher than standards set by the federal government. Stevens employees are paid at rates 31 per cent below the national average for factory workers. Retired Stevens workers then spend the last years of their lives in poverty. One man who had worked at a Stevens plant for 40 years was rewarded with a pension of $15 a week...
...billion tons a year by 1985-an unprecedented increase of almost 75% over the 685 million tons mined last year-and to coax electric utilities and industry to burn the coal instead of imported oil or scarce natural gas. A cloud of uncertainty as dark as coal dust hung over that ambitious goal even before 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers walked out of the pits last December, shutting off about half the nation's coal output. Settlement of their marathon, 109-day walkout has done nothing to clear up the doubts...