Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should you support the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in its strike against the Pittston Corporation by attending the the rally today at noon in front of the Harvard Corporation? After all, it's no longer rational to automatically side with organized labor against management. Excessive wage demands, counter-productive work rules, featherbedded benefits and union corruption are not just figments of the right-wing imagination. But the Pittston strike is different...
...want to emphasize the sometimes forgotten beauty of athletics," Johnston says. "A weakness of mine is that I'm not always as aggressive as I should...
Even if some sort of relationship is maintained, the notion of cooperative adoption may raise unsettling questions for the children. In an era of divorce, remarriage and yours-mine-and-ours families, it is perhaps less anomalous than it once was to contend with two sets of parents. Still, what does the child call this woman who comes to visit and sends the birthday cards? What is he or she to think when that person later has children she decides to keep? Worst of all, what happens if the birth mother, having endeared herself to her child, suddenly stops coming...
...Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand to the booming compact-disc format. Along with the wave of CDs from other companies, the CBS discs helped boost sales of Sony CD players from 2.9 million machines in 1987 to an estimated 6.5 million this year. Sony expects its musical gold mine to give the same boost to its new digital audiotape players...
...Another segment supposedly showed rebels stalking government guards and blowing up a mine. The Post says Etabari claims the footage was faked by Hoover at a camp in Pakistan. The Post adds that CBS in 1987 aired a tape of an exploding red toy and described it as a bomb planted by Soviet soldiers. An unidentified BBC producer called the "bomb" a phony device made for Hoover. Whatever the truth of these allegations, they are a reminder that skepticism is an editor's best -- and perhaps most reliable -- friend...