Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what his principal economic adviser, Mr. [Lawrence] Klein, has said. He says there will be no tax reduction because Mr. Carter is committed to the spending programs that are embraced in the Democratic platform. That's an honest position, but it's a position totally different from mine, and in order to prevent inflation as he spends more and has no tax reduction, he wants stand-by wage and price controls. I think that would be a disaster. The minute you get stand-by wage and price controls, people are going to be fearful, both labor and management...
GLORIA STEINEM, editor, Ms. magazine: Mine was a middle-class family in Toledo fallen on hard times, but we had books in the house. Like many women who don't conform, I didn't have brothers, so it is possible some of the dreams of the family were inadvertently invested in me. Show business was a pass ticket out of our neighborhood, so we all dreamed of being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls...
Communist Party: Gus Hall is running for president on a platform that is not designed to attract mainstream businessmen, but then, that is not a group the Communist Party has ever sought to enlist. Hall, who ran for election in 1972, was originally a mine worker in Minnesota, and one of his most notable campaign slogans is, "You wouldn't elect your boss as shop steward. Why elect his stooge to public office...
ENVIRONMENT. In trying to defend his Administration's generally weak record on environmental protection, Ford fell into some exaggerations. He claimed he had vetoed a strip-mining-control bill because it would have meant a loss of some 140,000 jobs. In fact, that was an inflated industry claim; in his own veto message last year, Ford contended that it might mean the loss of at most 36,000 jobs. Carter was right in pointing out that the job-conscious United Mine Workers had backed the bill. He was correct too in noting that Ford had held back funds...
...spectacular disaster that befell the coal industry after World War II should have served as a warning. Railroads and ships switched to diesel. Homeowners converted their furnaces to natural gas or fuel oil. Mines closed, and those that stayed open watched the price of their coal drop to $2.95 per ton. But who remembers the bust now that the boom is back? Today coal supplies one-fifth of the nation's total energy requirements. This elementary fact, says Caudill, permitted mineowners to run up the price from $9 to $35 per ton in 50 days after the Arab...