Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much more than friendly chats between Gerald Ford and George Meany will be required to reduce the labor militancy that is producing a rash of strikes, and kiting wages up at an inflationary pace this year. A strong indication of labor's mood: the United Mine Workers, representing 110,000 members who dig 75% of the nation's soft coal, plans to shut down all unionized mines throughout this week. Officially, the closing is a five-day "memorial period," called by U.M.W. President Arnold Miller to commemorate the 100,000 coal miners killed on the job in this...
...sold lately for as much as $45 a ton, v. $8 a year ago. Coal stockpiles now stand at 23 days for steel mills, 92 days for utilities and 39 days for industry generally. All are on the low side. Shrinking stockpiles will put pressure on the coal-mine owners, with whom Miller will begin the year's most important contract bargaining by the end of this month. Miller, who ousted the disgraced Tony Boyle in an election in 1972, has never negotiated a contract, and needs a fat pact to solidify his position. Among his desired concessions...
Characteristically, Baryshnikov worried about whether his greatest technical feat, the showstopping, leg-beating skitter across the stage called a brisê, was dramatically justified. "Do you think it made a bad impression?" he asked after the show. "The interpretation is mine, but the step is in the ballet. It's the last gasp of a soul...
More strikes threaten. Aerospace industry bargaining has just got under way. Later this year there will be contract talks covering 500,000 railroad workers. In November, just in time for winter, 80,000 mine workers will be seeking a new contract. They may try to hold down output so that supplies could fall perilously low and managements feel pressure to settle generously...
...coal will be one of the saving alternatives to oil as an energy source, and the easiest way to meet the nation's rising coal needs is to strip-mine. But strip mining - ripping off a top layer of earth to get at the coal underground - has done so much damage in the past that it is a prime target for environmentalists...