Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pact, the B.C.O.A's bargaining was turned over to Nicholas Camicia, 61, chairman of the Pittston Co., and Stonie Barker Jr., 51, president of Island Creek Coal Co. Although their firms rank among the nation's five largest coal companies, Camicia and Barker started out as deep-pit miners. Said Camicia: "I've been in the mines all my life, so I understand the people. I'm one of them...
...Boston Garden Friday and Saturday night the ECAC playoffs will be concluded. On Friday night the doubleheader will pit Brown against B.C. and Providence versus B.U. And on Saturday the finals will see the two finalists playing each other in the final game of the ECAC season. Two weeks from this weekend the two finalists will see action in the NCAA tournament at Brown...
...White House officials began calling coal companies, suggesting that the bargaining might be declared to be at an "impasse"?a technical term that would serve to dissolve the national contract talks and pit individual companies against union locals. The Administration also began to encourage executives in other industries to call their coal-company peers, urging settlement. Finally the Governors of afflicted states joined the cam paign, and mine owners complained that none-too-subtle threats were coming from state regulatory officials. Among them: that holdouts might face sudden delays in obtaining permits for strip mining and other operations...
...then whitewashed Leonid Smuckler, 5-0, in his last bout, clinching Harvard's overall victory by diving for a low touch in the pit of Smucker's stomach...
...have to be somewhat flexible, but unless we know how many applicants there are, we don't really know how to divide up the money," she said, adding, "We have never run out of money yet, but students think it is a bottomless pit...