Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trailer, then swept on. In Lawrence County they overturned a pickup truck; in Jackson County they did $13,000 worth of damage to one mine's scales. In Baldwin, Ill., another band of strikers delayed a train carrying coal to the state power company by stacking and burning railroad ties on the tracks leading into the utility's plant. In the snow-covered hills of western Pennsylvania, roadblocks set up by striking pickets, sometimes 500 strong, forced coal-truck drivers to dump up to 100 tons at a time on the highways. Any drivers who refused could count...
...plaid wool shirts, many of the miners spend lots of time these days in the Cabin Creek Coffee House. It is a warm and welcome refuge from the coal-dust-blackened slush outside and the dispiriting sight of the empty coal hoppers-as idle as the miners-on the railroad tracks across the road. The men pass the hours playing pool, drinking RC Cola and strong black coffee (35? a cup with a refill on the house) and talking about hunting, fishing and making ends meet...
...scorn for the tax laws that he used so well into a national crusade. Appearing on a TV talk show, he compared tax cheats with the guerrillas in the Danish underground who blew up Nazi-controlled railway lines during World War II. "Tax dodgers today are comparable to railroad saboteurs; they are doing a dangerous but useful job for the nation." Public response was so enthusiastic that Glistrup founded...
Like the tracks in a railroad yard, ICs were really complex switching systems, shuttling electrical pulses hither and yon at the computer's bidding. Still, ICs could not function by themselves; other electronic parts had to keep the switches opening and closing in proper order. Then came the next quantum leap in miniaturization: the development in the late 1960s of large-scale integration (LSI). Unlike their single-circuit predecessors, which were designed to do only one specific job, LSIs integrated a number of circuits with separate functions on individual chips. These in turn were soldered together on circuit boards...
Still, Panama's economy is weighted toward service industries, and there lies the biggest growth potential. Some businessmen think the government should expand the single-track Panama Railroad to handle more traffic in the containers borne by ships too large to navigate the canal. The free-trade zone in Colon already contributes 7½ % of the gross domestic product; the zone could spread onto American-occupied land near by that would be ceded to Panama under the treaties. Panamanians are even now enlarging the country's international financial center, an outpost of 81 banks from all over that...