Word: pittston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pittston, Pa., a community of 60,000 that slipped into decline when its coal mines gave out, West Germany's Schott Optical Glass company opened a manufacturing plant in 1969 with 60 employees. It now has 600. Reports TIME Correspondent Gisela Bolte: "City fathers have hired a consultant in Switzerland to recruit other foreign companies. A Swiss firm that has developed a friction reducing process for machinery will soon open in Pittston. To make the community even more attractive, the local airport runway will soon be extended to accommodate jumbo jets. In addition, a 42-acre industrial park...
...health benefits. Said a strip mine operator: "They underestimated the miners because they didn't know them. The company negotiators were mostly bureaucrats." In any event, after the miners rejected the 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...
Before he could win his clients all that money he would have to overcome several barriers, not the least of which was the high-priced and high-powered legal talent of the Pittston Company's resources. Few people, attorneys or laymen, write lucidly about the intricacies of the law, but Stern's book is easily comprehensible, and even exciting. Stern writes with almost clinical detail of the two Pittston legal strategems he discredited. The first was the "act of God" theory. Stern proved that the disaster was the result of Pittston negligence, and when the company tried then to show...
What makes the $13.5 million judgement especially remarkable is that Stern won it mainly through pleading what he termed psychic impairment. At first the Pittston attorneys characterized this as mere "puff and blow," until witnesses' breakdowns during hearings convinced Judge K.K. Hall that this was not so. Teams led by prominent psychologists (including Harvard's Robert Coles) found anxiety symptoms in all survivors of the flood, even those who had made it to safety. They watched friends and relatives carried out of their arms, or pulled older folks out of the water with bodies smashed, to have them die from...
...conscientiously disregarded by company officials and state inspectors. The people of Buffalo Creek are still trying to put their lives back together; some still live in the temporary housing the government moved in after the flood. From Stern's account, for the people of Buffalo Creek and the Pittston Company it all came down to one question: which came first, the chicken hawk...