Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quadriplegic. The grants are for any use the recipient wishes. Irwin, who will make his Broadway debut next month in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, plans to use part of the cash to quit teaching and write. "A few friends of mine asked if it would blunt my competitive edge as an actor," says the rubbery-faced performer. "I guess anything-too lean or too fat-can blunt...
...route to his leading role alongside Terri Garr and Peter Weller in the new Paramount film was less secure. "I did a lot of production in school," he says. "A friend of mine was doing commercials and she said to go for it." After some dozen spots for the Madison Avenue set, he landed a role in The Torch Song Trilogy. "I played a battered child who was gay and adopted by a drag queen." He says, holding back a slight smile...
...concerns focused on the coal dispute, which has turned into a political test of will for the government. After talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board broke down, the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shot-firers (NACODS), a moderate union of mine supervisors, announced that it would join the strike this week. If a total walkout occurs, the absence of NACODS' safety experts will close the 55 mines still producing coal and raise the real prospect of coal shortages and power cuts this winter. The threat angered the government. "I find...
Volcker will have the leeway to drop rates if inflation stays moderate, which seems likely. In addition to falling oil prices, another encouraging sign is the restraint shown this year by labor unions. The United Mine Workers agreed to a 12% wage and benefit increase over 40 months, far less than the 37.5% hike they reaped from their previous contract. Bernstein's Levine predicts that the consumer price index will climb only 3.2% in 1985, after a 3.9% increase this year...
...fifth of America's population declined from 6.8 percent to 6.1 percent. The richest fifth's share of the wealth rose from 37 percent to 38.9 percent. The only attributes besides incompetence which can be recommended to Reagan as an economist are cruelty and unfairness, and the "I got mine" attitude his tax cuts have engendered among the population...