Word: strikebound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Here we go again," sighed Frank Vahaly, 36, a coal miner in Bentleyville, Pa. His skepticism was echoed throughout the strikebound coal fields last week as negotiators for the miners and operators reached yet another tentative contract agreement-the third in the 14-week coal strike...
...imprisoned by the state. Jackson reputedly said, "Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." That ruling, however, did not specifically require Jackson to take any action. Other Presidents have bowed to decisions they considered wholly wrong. When Harry Truman's seizure of strikebound steel mills during the Korean War was declared unconstitutional, he yielded to the Supreme Court ruling. "I have no ambition," he said, "to be a dictator...
...like game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...