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...coal companies are faring well in spite of the industry's travail. In the West, strip-mine operations have benefited from low labor costs and long-term contracts at profitable rates. But other companies have wound up merely digging up the coal and dumping it on the ground. Utility companies have stockpiled so much that many now have no more room to store the fuel. Meanwhile, the surplus is forcing down contract prices for single shipments, which have tumbled from about $31 a ton a year ago to as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Dangers of Counting on Coal | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Gelsey has been dancing various roles in The Nutcracker for nearly 17 years, but her performance in the Baryshnikov version had special significance. It was her first triumph after a period of physical and emotional travail. While rehearsing the part, immersed in the light-heartedness of make-believe girlhood, Gelsey began doing something that her grim lockstep toward perfection had never allowed before: enjoying herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...that we probably are alone. To him, the Bible seems to indicate that the entire universe fell with Adam and Eve and that its redemption is connected with the work of Jesus Christ. For instance, Romans 8: 19-23 ("... we know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now"). Perhaps, Fetcho proposes, the UFOs are real but are not visits by space beings-they are, rather, caused by "extradimensionals," that is, demons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dabbling in Exotheology | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...residences nearby, using salvaged materials. He called his commune Emmaus, after the New Testament town (Luke 24:13-32) where two disciples, despondent after the Crucifixion, met the risen Christ and were filled with new hope. As it happened, the Emmaus movement was to grow out of personal travail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Quiet Miracle of Emmaus | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Jean Louis Moynod, Secretary-General of the Confederation General de Travail (CGT), spoke in French at Dunster House last night...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: French Leftist Leader Moynod Speaks on Political Split | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

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