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...White House's ability to settle the strike was strictly limited. Both sides have proved to be stubborn, fractious and suspicious. In the scarred and desolate hills of Appalachia, owners and miners both take for granted a degree of conflict that does not exist in other U.S. industries. From the start, the 130 companies that belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators Association showed a determination to bludgeon the union into a contract that had little chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted...
...Large urban dailies, Time, Newsweek, and a number of lesser national magazines dominate public expression. In the last 50 years, the number of both large and small circulation newspapers has declined precipitously, and with it a broad range of viewpoints and verbal freedom. The principle of a partisan, local, fractious, extremely diverse and decentralized press--a principle which survived from the first scurrilous debate on Federalism, through the Civil War, and into the 20th Century--has largely ceased to exist. Taking up the slack from the decline in newspapers, the nationally prominent magazines appeal to large readerships by cultivating only...
...megawatts of power constantly, and to get it, they burn 3 million tons of coal each week. Even if the strike were to end immediately, it would take 30 days to ratify the agreement and then restore the mines to working order. Yet the strike, complicated by a fractious union that has repudiated its own leadership, shows no sign of ending. "The power is just draining away," says an aide to Energy Secretary James Schlesinger...
Though both provisions slid easily enough through the House, the Senate called for total deregulation of gas prices and rejected the oil tax, leaving it to a joint conference committee to thresh out a compromise. The committee has been stymied on the natural gas question and by the fractious and squabbling performance of its Senate members. As a result, it has not even got to the crude oil problem...
...battle was over?and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...