Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shapiro continues to mine this degrading vein in the recent article on Kiely and Berryman, which is permeated with the author's editorializing and biases. These can't even be graced by the term "righteous indignation" because there is so little of substance offered to be rigteous about. Like its predecessors, the work degrades The Crimson because of its frenzied attempts to create an issue out of pettiness when this university is confronted by issues of its purposes, programs, and style far more significant than five years ago, issues that are being met with silence. These articles have demeaned your...
Powder Keg. As a result of the price runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive...
Died. Lewis Williams Douglas, 79, former Democratic Congressman from Arizona and Ambassador to Great Britain from 1947 to 1950, following a long illness; in Tucson, Ariz. Born in a frontier mining camp, Douglas went East to be educated and then worked briefly in his father's copper mine before entering politics. Douglas served in the House from 1928 until President Roosevelt appointed him Director of the Budget in 1933. After 18 months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service...
...said, What? What life? No life of mine...
...think anybody's running for secretary of state with a voting bill record as strong as mine," frontrunner John A. Businger said last week. The 29 year-old Brookline state representative has sponsored several voting rights bills including legislation supporting the easing of registration laws, laws for placing third parties on the ballot, and laws extending the Massachusetts polling hours...