Word: miners
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...after his father died, was a Democratic politician for a dozen years, switched parties when the First District Congressman retired in 1984, and won the seat that year as a Republican. As a g.o.p. leader in a G.O.P. House, Callahan can count on his reputation as a successful miner of federal funds as being more secure than ever...
Former history teacher Poshard is keeping the Democratic tradition of the 19th alive by lobbying for his farm and coal-miner constituents--disability benefits for those with black-lung disease, research on "clean coal," water projects for agriculture--but he also wants federal spending curbed. It's a political one-two punch likely to keep the likeable Poshard in office another two years...
What some scientists fear is that the frogs, like a miner's canary, could be a sign that something is very wrong with the environment. "We may have a large problem here," says Robert McKinnell, a University of Minnesota cancer researcher, who has collected hundreds of deformed frogs. "If frogs are not able to handle whatever it is that is causing this, it may turn out that people can't either...
...Victorian novel, not merely to a tale set in Victorian times. So is the central puzzle, which involves not only the story of the naive young cleric but also the distinctly unusual relationship between snobbish Charlotte, the bishop's chilly daughter, and Rose, a lusty "pit girl," or woman miner. It should not be overlooked that Rose is the novel's title figure. Smith's ending is not quite a hanky dampener, but it does bend a hard tale of murder and mine disaster a long way toward the never-never of historical romance...
...Physicians do not fulfill the role of 'killer' by prescribing drugs to hasten death any more than they do by disconnecting life-support systems," writes Judge Miner. This is pernicious nonsense. There is a great difference between, say, not resuscitating a stopped heart--allowing nature to take its course--and actively killing someone. In the first case the person is dead. In the second he only wishes to be dead. And in the case of life sustained by artificial hydration or ventilation, pulling the plug simply prevents an artificial prolongation of the dying process. Prescribing hemlock initiates...