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Company-financed health insurance for miners and their families ended when the strike began. Until doctors at the Cabin Creek Clinic last week began treating patients free on Tuesday evenings, the clinic's patient load had dropped by half. Says Administrator Margaret Light: "They're a lot sicker when they come in now." The strike also caused pensions, ranging from $225 to $250 a month, to be suspended for most of the hollow's retired miners. The pensions are financed by company-paid royalties of 55.4? for every ton of coal produced and 70 per man-hour...
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...certainly be able to carry much of the load we're carrying now, and it would be more productive. We pay our share of the Canadian defense freight. It doesn't have much fallout in Quebec. We could afford to shoulder as much of the load as we're shouldering now, and if we had to, it would be a lot more stimulating, because at least we'd get the economic benefit from it. My personal opinion is that it would be completely nutty not to keep the normal, basic Western ties, including NATO...
...opens the album and is very good indeed--a song about growing up and changing, and the physical and spiritual traveling one has to do along the way--and the record's closer, a remake of the Zodiacs' mid-1960s hit, "Stay." In between, the songs are disappointing. "The Load-Out," a tribute to Browne's roadies, is nothing less than spectacularly dumb. Lyrically inane as well as musically torpid, the song includes such unbearably bad lines...
Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean for financial affairs, said yesterday the bill now in conference would have little immediate effect on the Faculty, which now offers professors at the age of 66 the choice of teaching a half-load of courses for four years or a full load of courses for two years...