Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are learning that through common action they can break the strangle-hold the industrial nations have on them. The first manifestation of this power--the oil price rise mandated last year by a coalition of Arab nations--has set a hopeful precedent for other Third World nations which mine metals crucial to industrial concerns in the developed nations. Just last month the four nations which produce most of the world's copper--Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire--agreed to a 10 per cent reduction in their exports in an effort to force a price rise on the world market...
...appliances-though not for many months, because S and Ls have to repay debts before they can start making new mortgage loans. The strike of 120,000 coal miners, which has badly deepened the recession in the past few weeks, seems on its way to an end; the United Mine Workers Bargaining Council finally accepted a new contract last week and sent it out for a membership vote. Administration economists think that they see signs-more trustworthy than the many false ones of the past-that inflation is at last beginning to abate. Those signs are only beginning to show...
...Sweepstakes. He bubbles. He bounces. He loves American beer. Above all, he credits his eminence in a rarified field not necessarily to years of scholarship, not to a preternatural kinship with the shades of Telemann and Tartini, but to the four years he spent working in a Provencal coal mine as a youth. "Look at these lungs," he cries after breathing deeply. "Feel these back and shoulder muscles. That is what it takes to play the Baroque trumpet...
...wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated." Thus, after decades of lugging his camera into the crannies of American misery and hope-ghetto Jews and child pieceworkers in the verminous cellars of New York, riggers on the high steel, the corridors of Ellis Island and the mine tunnels of Pennsylvania-Lewis Hine, once a schoolteacher but also one of America's great reformist photographers, gave his modest definition of "concerned" photography. All arts, in theory, have some social resonance. But documentary photography is uniquely a social act, for its sole purpose is to make people concrete...
...offer one week of living as a member of the family in a working-class home - mine. Now that would be "class...