Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LABOR-MANAGEMENT time bomb is ticking in anticipation of the November 12 expiration of the current United Mine Workers contract. The confrontation promises to burst into a protracted strike with potentially crippling effects on the American economy. The strike will climax the present period of flux in the relationship of the coal industry to the national economy. This changing relationship has been caused by rapidly rising oil prices, which have given coal new importance as an abundant source of energy. The increased importance of coal has given the U.M.W. new leverage in contract negotiations, and the Union hopes to close...
...United Mine Workers' newly elected president, Arnold Miller, has taken office in a union wracked by scandal but vows to "get tough with the operators until they scream." Miller's tough approach consists of demands for a 20 per cent wage hike, higher safety standards and a rise in the ante contributed by mine operators to the Union pension fund from $.80 to $2.40 per ton of coal. These benefits would increase the industry's manpower costs by only 50 per cent, while coal prices have doubled in the last four years. Miller is threatening the coal industry with...
...DSOC plan work to generate student support for a number of local and national issues. Organizers of the two groups hope to work together to publicize the situation of the United Mine Workers, who are expected to strike in November and to encounter a large-scale publicity effort by the nation's energy industries. Both groups also plan to continue work in support of the boycott sponsored by the United Farm Workers...
...undressing in closets or bathrooms. But most women find their sex lives relatively unimpaired, and more than a few believe that their mates become even more understanding after the operation than before. "Most men are more tender and loving than ever," says Mrs. Hilda Aks, 56, of Washington. "Mine certainly has been...
...gray suits and regimental ties, is approved by the company. In his wallet Slocum carries a coded list of the names of 23 girls-the interchangeable inhabitants of his third world. Joylessly he fornicates. He finds "close relationships suffocating." He warns: "A friend in need is no friend of mine...