Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...productivity in the deep mines has dropped from a high of 15.6 tons daily per man in 1969 to 10.7 tons today. One reason: the Government's tough safety rules, which have cut mining efficiency. The industry has also been plagued in the past two years by hundreds of wildcat strikes. Coal executives say the stoppages prove that United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is not as good a leader as he is a negotiator. In 1974 he won his union (current membership: 135,000) a healthy contract-the average wage is $50 a day before overtime...
Boosting deep-mine productivity is only one problem. To open a new mine requires heavy capital expenses-on average, $35 in investment for each ton of annual capacity-that can be recouped only over many years. Says John Paul, a vice president of AMAX: "Coal mines are not water spigots. You don't just open a tap and turn them on." To justify the expense, coal men need a guaranteed market-and for that potential buyers have to have some assurance that the fuel can be burned in compliance with clean-air laws...
Promised Land. Meanwhile, the mining companies' search for clean coal is leading to a vast new promised land -the West. The industry has long known about the immense coal reserves between Arizona and Montana. But few operators chose to mine the deposits, mainly because the coal was too far from the biggest markets. Yet after 1970, the Western coal began to exert a powerful new appeal for the simple reason that it has a low sulfur content...
Until now, brainwashing has never held up as a successful plea in a federal court, though U.S. military tribunals have acquitted prisoners of war who claimed that they had been brainwashing victims. Richard Sprague, the Philadelphia prosecutor who won four first-degree murder convictions in the killing of United Mine Workers' union leader Jock Yablonski, warns: "It would really attack the fundamentals of criminal law, which holds an individual responsible for his actions. If this happens, you are going to be turning the criminal courtroom into a psychiatrist's couch." Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, the majority...
Like its "chairmadam" (really), the organization's style and language are colorful--and noticed. "For Love and Money" is its theme song; "My ass is mine" is COYOTE's completely serious motto...