Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with other short friends of mine, enjoy Randy Newman's song. The shortsighted, short-minded, short-souled. short-of-brains people who hate Short People are short of humor as well...
Rockefeller did get some key proposals through the legislature. He streamlined the cumbersome state health department, set up an office of economic and community development, and pleased the state's 54,000 active coal miners by upgrading mine safety regulations. But he was forced to retreat on two campaign promises. First, the legislature would not buy his proposal to eliminate the 3% sales tax on groceries. Says John Fanning, chairman of the senate finance committee: "I saw no reason to give sales tax relief and then have to raise other taxes to make it up." Rockefeller's request...
...Callaghan has plenty to fight back with. Last week the Prime Minister reaped a substantial political bonanza with some favorable economic news. Britain's mine workers agreed to go along with the government's 10% limit on wage increases; the pound, already surging, rose another half a cent; and key Labor economists projected a drop in the inflation rate (13% in November) to 7% by July. One pollster believes that the party may also pick up a large block of new votes in the next election from the traditionally apolitical Asian immigrants. His prediction: "They are going...
...meeting was supposed to begin at 10 a.m., Friday, at United Mine Workers headquarters, two blocks from the White House. The coal strike was nearing its 70th day, and Union President Arnold Miller hoped that the 39-member U.M.W. bargaining council would approve the proposed new contract that he and his aides had negotiated with the coal operators. But angry miners by the hundreds had journeyed to Washington, and they camped like an occupying force in the headquarters' lobby...
...basic decision lay in Washington, where the U.M.W. at week's end was studying the latest contract proposals from the mine operators. The main terms: a wage boost of more than 30% over three years and a guarantee of health and pension benefits in exchange for a union labor stability agreement. Some observers predicted that a settlement was imminent, but even if it did come soon, U.M.W. members would still need ten days or more to ratify the contract, and that ratification was by no means certain...