Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scared to Speak. If complacency has helped to stave off 20th century safety precautions underground, economics has been an even more formidable barrier...
Since the advent of petroleum and electricity as primary energy sources for many industries, King Coal has moved cautiously. The miners and their natural ombudsmen, their union leaders and politicians, were and are scared to speak out in favor of compulsory reforms that might force coal prices up and out of the market-and cost the men virtually the only secure employment in job-scarce Appalachia, where most of the mines are located...
...good week, with overtime, a miner can bring home $200, a tidy sum in the hill country. Besides, the mines are heavy tax producers for the states in which they are located. Thus it requires a great deal of courage to speak out in favor of safety precautions and equipment that can add to the operating costs of the mines...
...equal partner" with the U.S., the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese. While the South Vietnamese dithered over whether to attend the talks, the Front's representatives in Paris quickly set out to portray the N.L.F. as something that it is not-a government with the power to speak for itself and the people it controls...
Soviet revisionists, renegades and enemy agents are happy. You speak of revolution, but in practice you are counterrevolutionary...