Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Mine Workers Union and the mine operators failed to agree on new terms before the old contract expired. Though Union President W.A. (Tony) Boyle did not call a walkout, the 80,000 UMW members, following the "no contract, no work" tradition, walked off their jobs anyway. The union wants daily wages increased from $37 to about $50, a doubling of the 40? per ton "royalty" that the operators pay into the union pension fund, paid sick leave and increased medical benefits. The biggest complication is the confusion caused by the freeze and the controls that will follow...
...Czech dissidents, deeply involved in the Dubéek era. I instantly recognized them, but pretended not to know them at all. After a dozen tries, my friend sneered, "You're not very good at your job, are you?" I assured him that I was far better at mine than he was at his. Muttering an oath, he got up, walked across the lobby and sidled up to another Western reporter, to begin the same routine...
...remember in one of the first games last season. Pete Varney was playing fullback. Varney came lumbering through the line and decided to plant his foot on top of mine. Crushed my arch. If it would have been a little guy like Steve Harrison, I wouldn't have minded so much. But when Varn steps on you, you know you've been stepped...
...with that one word. Each grows more demanding and the motions become more violent. Suddenly, each couple has "mime" to the child. But the emotion soon curdles as each parent becomes more and more possessive and the scene ends with an angry yelling match, again only involving the word "mine...
Although Boun Oum's power has not been based on a commercial empire, it has facilitated his accumulation of substantial commercial interests, apart from his airline and the profits from buildings rented to Americans in Vientiane. These include cement and pig iron factories in Thakkek, a tin mine which accounts for perhaps one fourth of the Country's total production, saw mills in Sedone and Savannakhet, and substantial forests and agricultural land...