Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears dead. Opinion pages in recent issues of the Independent range from the gold mine crimes of Charles Engelhard to the true definition of a "liberal arts education." The Harvard Gazette recently asked some of Harvard's "wise men and women" (Harvard professors) to discuss the important issues of 1979. Not one mentioned food...
...coal companies are faring well in spite of the industry's travail. In the West, strip-mine operations have benefited from low labor costs and long-term contracts at profitable rates. But other companies have wound up merely digging up the coal and dumping it on the ground. Utility companies have stockpiled so much that many now have no more room to store the fuel. Meanwhile, the surplus is forcing down contract prices for single shipments, which have tumbled from about $31 a ton a year ago to as little...
Miller: I think we all have a right to our own destiny as individuals. And I have a right to choose mine, and everybody else has a right to choose theirs...
...Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend their acres from within fortress-like arrays of fences, and travel through the bush in vehicles built to withstand mine explosions. Increasingly, the Rhodesian military has resorted to sending its jets on bombing raids on guerrilla camps in Zambia and Angola. Last week one such raid into Angola, according to the Patriotic Front, killed 192 and wounded nearly 1,000 guerrillas and civilians...
...chemin defer table from Paris now used as a desk and, for this occasion, a tape recorder. "I asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind if I use mine.' Later, he asked me to send him a transcript, explaining that he had pressed his pause button and lost the first 15 minutes." Happily, Clarke had not hit his pause button...