Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing anything about it? The United Mine Workers were so cooperative that the president of U. S. Steel's mining division thanked them for helping to fight "government interference and unreasonable safety regulations." The union spent its time buying a bank and using dues to make low-interest loans to coal companies and Congressmen: its three top officers set up a secret pension fund and put $1.5 million into it for themselves. But retired union miners had to settle for pension benefits of $??5 per month-when they could get it. so many of them were excluded, for technical...
Other government agencies (need anyone mention the Pentagon?) are similarly tied to the industries that they are supposed to regulate. The Labor Department dismissed Jock Yablonski's allegations of gangland corruption on the United Mine Workers until Yablonski and his family were found murdered...
Recently, at Interior, John F. OLeary, head of the Bureau of Mines, was replaced because of pressure from the mining industry. O'Leary, the industry thought, was too strongly enforcing mine safety regulations recently passed by Congress to protect miners...
...interest in this cult began after a close friend of mine became disturbingly fanatic about it and began spewing forth a most incredible stream of theories and arcane terminology. All of which are purportedly based upon painstaking "scientific" research. "Thus, along with science, Scientology can achieve positive invariable results," writes L. Ron Hubbard. "Scientology can change intelligence upward at the rate of one point per hour." Hubbard continues, "The amount of benefit to be gained from Dianetics exceeded anything that Man had ever been able to do for anybody in the history of the human race." Finally, "Scientology...
There can be little doubt that Scientology does have beneficial effects on many people. A friend of mine gave up drugs and stealing. He began to read more, too, and seemed much more confident when speaking. One of the first things that strikes you when you visit a Scientology center is the smiling good cheer, friendliness, and poise of the people. Something works-whether it's the techniques, the power of positive thinking, or simply a function of investing so much time and money in a project that you become determined to succeed, only Scientologists know...