Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contract fattened with losing changes (It doesn't matter the oldest say 'You still go down in the mines') The slam of the tipple jarring his brain thinking bland-faced of the spring flood from the strip mine The mud water in his sink and cellar...
...COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF MINE used to take Jimmy Buffett intravenously, back when he was a cult figure, him and his imaginary Coral Reefer Band, back before his 1977 smash "Margaritaville" salted the airwaves 40 times a day on every pre-programmed all-the-kids-are-doing-it AM radio station in the country. They still made his concerts last year, but mainly for the sake of the old songs, like "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More," and for a commode-huggin' good time. They thought "Margaritaville" was a lemon...
Finally it was over. After 109 days, two abortive contract offers and untold expenditures of rancor, obstinacy and personal discomfort, rank-and-file members of the United Mine Workers voted late last week to end their strike. With union leaders promising that the 165,000 miners would return to their jobs on Monday and mine owners predicting that coal shipments would be back to normal within the week, the energy crisis that had been threatening-but never quite materializing-in a dozen Eastern Central states seemed to have passed...
...boys were also suffering from the aftershocks of sudden success. They drank to excess, indulged in lots of speed, lived crazy and spent big. "There was a time," recalls Barry, "when I could walk out the front door and every car to the end of the street was mine, from the white Rolls at the front door to the Alpha at the corner." Maurice, who had five Rolls-Royces and six Aston Martins, practiced his own kind of inventory control by periodically pickling himself and trashing one of the cars. Says he: "I was getting to be a real alky...
...within the B.C.O.A., some operators predict that the industry will eventually adopt a two-tier approach to bargaining: one for issues on which all members agree, the other for issues on which they are split. For instance, the operators are equally concerned with increasing productivity. Said Madison, W. Va., Mine-owner Herbert Kinder: "Give the operators a 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...