Word: pit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordinarily, the rugged mountain towns of Morenci and Clifton are close-knit in an almost feudal way, drawn together by their common employer. Morenci (pop. 2,700), dominated by the huge white pit of the copper mine and the two monster smokestacks of the smelter, is the archetypal company town. Phelps Dodge, which has enjoyed a reputation as a generous employer, owns the water and electric utilities, the county hospital, the gas station, the motel, the bowling alley, the high school and a new Spanish-style shopping center featuring the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Co. (easy credit terms). Workers earn...
...Khmer Rouge only a few years earlier, Lien credits the Vietnamese with rescuing her from certain death: the flux and confusion accompanying the incursion allowed her and her brothers to escape one night across the reedy, mountainous border into Thailand. Behind in the camp they left a cavernous pit, which Lien had learned was to be a mass grave for the workers...
...sought a commitment from the Democratic Party and its top leaders to work to erase the requirement in some localities that residents sign up on two separate registration rolls, sometimes in different towns, before they are eligible to vote. More controversial is his desire to eliminate second primaries, which pit an election's two top finishers in a runoff, a system that makes it more difficult for blacks to win where they are not in the majority. In Chicago, for example, which does not have a runoff in its Democratic mayoral primary, Washington was able to win with less than...
...winning the contracts for Occidental, Hammer has succeeded in becoming accepted by Premier Zhao Ziyang as "China's old friend." Last year Hammer completed 2½ years of negotiations for a study that may lead to joint development of the world's largest open-pit coal mine in Shanxi province, west of Peking...
...tour de force. The story involves a gullible rooster who is lured twice from his perch by the fox, but escapes and triumphs in the end with the help of his friends the cat and the goat. While the dancers silently cavort, a quartet of soloists in the orchestra pit sing the tale...