Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Year issue. Since 1980, Levine's pen has added vivid detail to TIME'S reports on congressional and gubernatorial races. Says he: "Caricature is not portrait painting; you cannot dig that deep. You bring to it your own philosophy-about politics, about life. Mine is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible...
...cordless microphone passing from hand to hand around the bar is a magic wand, transforming people into singing stars, romantic desperadoes, family. Betty holds the mike for Terry, who sings This Love of Mine. They gaze into each other's eyes. Tenderness seems to rise in a cloud from Margaret's keyboard. A wild, passionate embrace, something along the lines of the Tabu perfume ad, seems inevitable. "This is the only place you can come and make a fool of yourself in front of your friends," says Terry. "Of course, we've been married 31 years...
...coal board's hard line proposal to close down twenty pits, thereby eliminating twenty thousand jobs, that precipitated the current strike. The NCB claims that the pits are virtually spent, and therefore inefficient to mine...
Arthur Scargill, the truculent president of the National Union of Miners, has a different opinion. Scargill believes the state should continue to mine the pits until the store of coal is totally exhausted to avoid firing or relocating miners until absolutely necessary. He claims that a 1974 labor-management agreement on coal policy, approved after a lengthy strike that brought down Edward Heath's Conservative government in that same year, contains no mention of pit closings. (MacGregor and his allies have parried this charge with full page newspaper ads quoting statements by both Scargill and the 1974 report which concede...
...gold miners, though, have run into strong opposition from environmentalists, especially in California's storied motherlode country near Sonora and in the northern foothills around Clear Lake. Property owners and politicians have forced Placer Mining Services, a Fluor subsidiary, to stop digging at its mine near Nevada City. Homestake, America's largest producer, and Sonora Mining have also felt pressures against their bulldozing and blasting...