Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tariff that he has imposed on imported oil, which now fetches about $15 per bbl. in the U.S. Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million to mine operators wanting to expand coal production, underwrite state efforts to develop fuel-saving programs and provide for the creation of an oil reserve of 500 million to 1 billion bbl. of oil as a hedge against another Arab oil embargo...
...This term is primarily used by women refering to each other and is as derogatory to me as "chick" has become to a good many women. My first visit to a gay bar in Boston, The Saints, was highlighted by the bartender asking a friend of mine who had come north with me, if she was a dyke, a term never heard in my college town. We were both speechless, which the woman who had asked the question took to indicate ignorance and she promptly rephrased it with "gay," bringing us both back to earth...
...government. But if they settle down and organize, they may prove to be a formidable danger to the moderates as well as to the Communists. Meanwhile, many wealthy and professionally skilled Angolans have settled in Spain, France and Brazil rather than stay in Portugal. "These people are a gold mine of talent," said a top-ranking foreign diplomat. "If Portugal doesn't have the foresight to tap their skills, but drives them away, only the dirt farmers will be left...
...California jamboree, attended by 15,000 people at the site of an old gold mine 90 miles north of Los Angeles, chili heads, as fanciers call themselves, stirred up chile con possum, rabbit, chicken, pork, rattlesnake, ham hocks, jerky and Portuguese sausage. An Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow...
SOUTH AFRICA also relies heavily on Mozambique labor for its mining industry, as nearly a quarter of its miners have come from southern Mozambique. Malawi is already withdrawing its nationals from South African mines, and if Machel's government recalls Mozambique citizens, South Africa will lose about half its miners. And the same reasons that made foreign labor so attractive to the mine owners make them reluctant to rely on South African laborers--a higher concentration of black South Africans in the mines could increase the number of strikes and work stoppages that already plague the South African ruling elite...