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GETTING IT. Coal is often difficult and dangerous to mine. In 1969, Congress passed the National Coal Health and Safety Act to force improvements in mine conditions. These were vividly recalled by Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers, in a recent speech. Old miners, said Miller, "labored their...
Some other Asian economies will suffer because they are closely tied to Japan, which is cutting many of its exports 10% to 25% as a result of its own troubles in buying Arab oil at today's prices. Such countries as Thailand and Malaysia buy nearly all their steel...
A lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen...
They found their position in Russian life towards the end of the 19th Century even more marginal than it had been before. In 1887 a government inquiry found that "90 per cent of the Jews are a proletariat of such poverty and destitution as is otherwise impossible to see in...
The results showed that a system that had been proffered as a variation of pass-fail grading had been abused. Instructors allotted only an eight-point region for passing marks. Furthermore, 16 per cent of the class fell within a "marginal" designation and were required to perform remedial work. Ostensibly...