Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, the B.C.O.A. negotiating team took tough positions on several issues, including wildcat strikes and health benefits. Said a strip mine operator: "They underestimated the miners because they didn't know them. The company negotiators were mostly bureaucrats." In any event, after the miners rejected the pact, the B.C.O.A's bargaining was turned over to Nicholas Camicia, 61, chairman of the Pittston Co., and Stonie Barker Jr., 51, president of Island Creek Coal Co. Although their firms rank among the nation's five largest coal companies, Camicia and Barker started out as deep-pit miners. Said Camicia...
...stable work force, and the miners could have anything they want." But the owners are divided over the proposed contract's requirement that miners pay up to $200 in deductibles for medical care. Said a small Pennsylvania operator: "The deductibles are tiny, but the miners have had free health care for years, and this is a step back to them, no matter how small...
...will be given funds in certain cases to fight against location of new plants, a bow to the conservationists. The bill also stipulates that once approval has been given by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a plant, it cannot be stalled by further litigation, except on grounds of health or safety. Though that seems a huge loophole, the Government hopes that the provision will curtail the protracted environmental lawsuits that have hobbled the industry...
Murphy also worries about the rising impediments to productivity, which he thinks are threatening the U.S.'s ability to pay high wages. "I like those high wages," he contends. "They make our people better customers." He notes that the U.S. is rightly concerned about the environment, about health and safety in the workplace, yet many of the new regulations not only impede productivity gains but also put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage against countries that are much less fastidious. If the U.S. continues to place restrictions on anything that might pollute or present any hazard to customers...
Weltha, 49, is a bearded former music teacher who joined the Iowa State faculty twelve years ago, likes to bicycle to class, and eats health food at his desk for lunch. In 1970 he began dabbling in parapsychology and attended lectures and seminars on the subject. Soon he was bringing local psychics to his classes and trading ghostly tales with them. By 1975 he had become so immersed in the otherworldly that he was elected president of the newly formed Iowa Federation of Astrologers. Finally, he got permission from a faculty committee to teach his bizarre course. As Weltha explained...