Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces of legislation have started more arguments than the various bills Congress has considered to regulate strip mining of coal-a method that accounts for more than half the 600 million tons of coal produced annually in the U.S. Environmental groups, ranchers and farmers favor such a law; they are dismayed by the landslides, soil erosion, water pollution and impairment of natural beauty that often result from the stripping away of tons of topsoil to get at rich coal seams lying just beneath the earth's surface. Energy industries argue that to achieve some form of energy self-sufficiency...
...many coal companies, these western areas, chiefly in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota, have been the land of the future. Reserves estimated at 32 billion tons lie close to the surface and are easy to mine. The low sulfur content of the coal makes it attractive to pollution-prone utilities. The bill throws into doubt, at least for the moment, many of the coal companies' plans for expansion. "It is fair to say that this bill was not designed to facilitate the mining of western coal but rather to prevent it," complains Donald Cook, chairman of the nation...
There are some indications that Mitbestimmung can indeed work that way. During a decline in the West German coal industry that cost 400,000 miners their jobs between 1957 and 1973, management and workers consulted closely on mine closings and programs for re-employment, retraining and early retirement of employees. Result: the shrinkage was accomplished with no major labor disputes. Mitbestimmung, says Karl-Heinz Briam, labor representative on the board of Krupp's steel operation, "is something like marriage with no divorce possible...
...December 1945, I spent several weeks in Hanoi with instructions to make contact with Ho Chi Minh, then head of a provisional government in North Indochina. The last time we talked was after the French had landed a major force in Haiphong. We sipped Scotch (his) and smoked cigarettes (mine) long into the night. He was certain, he said, that there would be a long war and that he would fight "whomever and wherever" for as long as it took. Within months, Ho had left for the jungle, and the long war had begun...
General William Westmoreland visits, looking for a job and advises Ford to bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail and mine Halphong harbor for a month. Ford replies courteously. "Unfortunately, the law says we can't do that, Westy." Miss America stops by and almost forgets her pocketbook, but the president reminds her, "Better not leave your purse, Shirley. We've got some real bad characters around here." All the president's visitors have their pictures taken by the White House photographers, and Ford makes sure that they all get copies. The president's usual lunch, we learn, is cottage cheese...