Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued, "but there's nothing self-conscious in my love of country. I am a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don't -- the ones who raise the family, pay the taxes, meet the mortgage. I hear them and I am moved, and their concerns are mine...
Michael Stewartt began his flying career 2,000 ft. underground, in a copper mine near Tucson. That was in 1969. He was 19, short on cash and certainties, too restless for college, already back from a year of wandering that had taken him as far as Australia. The mine taught him what he wanted: out. He spent his wages on flying lessons and became a bush pilot in Alaska, the state with the bushiest piloting...
...desire to offend Hispanics. But he wasn't and he didn't He was making an observation, obviously an awkward one, when he said that those are my grandchildren, who happen to stand out a bit in my predominantly white family because they have dark skin, darker than mine if you must know...
...turned associate producer, have been together since 1975. They live with their three daughters in Santa Monica and on a ranch in Montana. "What's so terrific about our marriage is Susan's support of my work," Bridges says. "Her name should be up in the credits along with mine." After Tucker, Susan may be demanding an even bigger screen credit. The movies' most reliable leading man is about to become a white-hot Hollywood star...
Even at his age, David understands that workers are being replaced by machines that can mine more coal more cheaply. His father has been laid off twice, the previous time for three years, so David worries about coal's future as well as his own. "I'm afraid," he says, "that later on the dead trees and plants won't be able to produce coal and everybody will be losing their jobs...