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Most original proposal. Simon's suggestion that pictures of steelworkers, coal miners and inner-city children replace the presidential portraits in the White House to remind officials for whom they work...
Thornburgh governed his state through one ofits toughest economic periods in history. Hard hitby economic recession and the decline of itssmoke-stack industries in coal and steel,Pennsylvania's unemployment rate reached seventhhighest in the nation when he took office. Byencouraging national economic trends towardservice-oriented and high technology businessesand creating job retraining programs, Thornburghis credited by his followers with creating morethan 500,000 new jobs and reducing unemployment tothe point where Pennsylvania was at the nationalaverage. His voters seemed to approve as theyreturned him to office by more than 100,000 votesin...
...that. Starting in 1980 she pushed through legislation to limit picketing rights, ban secondary picketing and make national unions financially responsible for the actions of their members. She has taken on a number of the country's most powerful unions and crushed them: the steelworkers in 1980, the coal miners in 1985 after a bitter one-year strike, and the teachers last year. Partly as a result of Thatcher's efforts, union membership has fallen by one-quarter, to 9 million, and strikes are at a 50- year low. The number of workdays lost to labor disputes has declined from...
...folks in Rawhide Village, a subdivision near Gillette, Wyo., figured something was amiss back in February when they found they could set fire to cracks in the street. Methane, it developed, was surfacing from coal deposits below. So was stinking -- and sickening -- hydrogen sulfide. By this month, with the hydrogen sulfide causing illnesses and the methane turning into a serious fire hazard, the Campbell County commission ordered some 180 families to evacuate by July 31. "Unlike a disaster such as a flood, you can't see it," says County Commissioner Tom Ostlund, who is seeking federal disaster funds...
...bank, high school, drugstore, hardware, harness and furniture stores, millinery store, meat market, two hotels, restaurant, two farm implement houses, photograph gallery, undertaker, opera house and lodge hall, telephone exchange, two poolrooms, barbershop, two livery barns, one auto livery, blacksmith and machine shop, newspaper, three elevators, lumberyard and three coal yards, feed mill, creamery and flour mill and two dray lines...