Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement yesterday that 44,754 of 120,000 miners in the United Mine Workers union voted to commit the union to an inadequate contract for the next three years was only official verification that business continues as usual--at the expense of the miners' expectations for a decent work and a decent life...
...building conveys a spirit, and some people call that spirit dungeon-like. A friend of mine calls it "jowly and very heavy--just like Richardson." It should not be forbidding. Perhaps though, it should suggest a two-sided romanticism, an ambivalence best suggested by the main archway. The solid doors open easily-but is there a portcullis hidden within? I sometimes wonder. The arch is very deep: the iron points of the sinister descending gate might be met at any depth. But the arch is also an intimate whispering arch: a murmur spoken into any of the grooves...
...later this year above 6.5%-a figure that Administration planners had not expected to be reached until next year. Layoffs related to the coal strike last week totaled nearly 20,000. At U.S. Steel, 18,000 employees were out of work or put on short weeks because of the mine stoppage. Bethlehem Steel will lay off 2,800 workers this week. The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad and Norfolk & Western Railway Co. have laid off a total of 770 employees...
...cutbacks in manufacturing. If CIPEC succeeds in raising prices, many industries will be affected. Copper is an important ingredient in cars, planes and trains as well as in plumbing materials, pots and pans, and even intrauterine devices. The U.S. and the Soviet Union, the two largest copper producers, both mine nearly enough for their own needs. Europe and Japan, however, rely heavily on CIPEC copper...
Metal traders were skeptical that CIPEC could drive up prices. They questioned the effectiveness of a cutback in shipments without a reduction in production. Almost in response, the Chilean government announced that it would close down the Exotica Mine for six months; the mine, one of Chile's largest, last year produced about 32,000 tons, or only 4% of Chile's copper exports. That should certainly not be enough to kick up prices-unless more member countries also close their mines...