Word: mille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...analyze all mill accidents: who was injured, how, when, why. Says he: "I keep track of all the cases that are referred to a doctor, but for every doctor case, there are 25 times as many first-aid cases that should be recorded." Meantime, he has designed a math program for his son Brent and is shopping for a word-processing program to help his wife Mary Edith write her master's thesis in psychology. Says he: "I don't know what it can't do. It's like asking yourself, 'What's the most exciting thing you've ever...
Perhaps the most dramatic example of Massachusetts' refocusing is to be found 25 miles north of Boston in Lowell (pop. 92,418). It was there that the first textile mill in the U.S., powered by the waters of the Merrimack River, opened in 1822, and the American industrial revolution really began. Lowell became one of the world's largest textile producers, but by the 1930s slow decline quickened into bankruptcy and industrial flight. By the mid-'70s once humming "Spindle City" had turned into a town too depressed even to tear down its boarded-up mills. Luckily...
...economics, and is pinning his hopes on Maine's relatively few 78 percent overall unemployment rate and on the conservative Republican instincts of the state's many small farmers. Both sides agree that the outcome could hinge on Emery's ability to hold on to traditionally Democratic voters in mill towns like Lewiston. Portland and Westburg--voters who have backed him for the House, but who now fear that their jobs may be the next...
...solemn procession moved out of the gates of the giant steel mill at Nowa Huta, an industrial city less than ten miles from Cracow, and began to make its way across railroad tracks and cinder heaps to a hill overlooking the foundry. Many workers in the column carried their soot-smudged vermilion hard hats under their arms. Others held bunches of chrysanthemums or evergreen wreaths bedecked with ribbons bearing bold messages like IT is BETTER TO DIE STANDING UP THAN LIVE ON YOUR
...week before to protest the banning of the independent trade union Solidarity was spent. In its place they felt only grief. What brought more than 10,000 of them together in a moving show of defiance was the funeral of Bogdan Wlosik, 20, a trainee electrician at the steel mill who had been shot in a scuffle with a plainclothesman. He was the 15th Pole known to have been killed since the imposition of martial law last December, and if Solidarity activists had no desire to confront the forces ranged against them in downtown Nowa Huta last week, they...