Word: smokestacks
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...little more in the ideas of these pieces, rather than focusing significantly on embellishment. He executed the last selection, a genuine if overly scripted "Notre Dame Blues," With appropriate gusto, smiling visibly for the first time while playing. Perhaps he was considering the incongruity of Rochberg's brand of smokestack lightning--replete with twangs and even a couple of slides--amidst the Gardner's 15th century surroundings...
Labor unions? They're as lost in today's economy as velociraptors would be in a later-than-Jurassic environment. As the smokestack industries that they once dominated declined, unions have been losing members and influence for decades. Those remaining are too timid even to strike much anymore, and when they do they usually lose. They are toothless dinosaurs on the way to becoming fossils...
...spray of soot from Cambridge Hospital's smokestack blanketed nearby cars, streets and buildings Thursday morning at around...
...drive east of Los Angeles. The plant, once 20 stories high and 100 yds. long, has been reduced to a ruin, and as workers with acetylene torches continue their cutting, Trentz watches the factory where he worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just be allowed to sit and rust. Something stranger is happening, though: the plant has been sold to the Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild...
Moreover, despite an influx of farmers and smokestack-industry workers attracted by its anti-NAFTA stance, UWSA's core membership is heavy on small- business people, retired military officers and others dexterous with Rolodexes, mailing lists and the other building blocks of activism. They are also dedicated. Roger Henson, the group's Texas issues coordinator, a 45-year- old engineering consultant with a wife and 11-year-old son, has put his life on hold to work the volunteer position. "We made the decision as a family that it was critical to our nation to participate in this debate...