Word: mining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...important to me that the last two assistants [at Harvard] had gone on to a head coaching job," Tomassoni says. "That's a career goal of mine and it made a big difference in deciding to take...
...quiet traveller character in them called Snufkin, who wanders around, with his shapeless black hat, a harmonica and a pipe. This summer, in Inari, Finland (working for Let's Go), I bought a hat which looked like Snufkin's hat. Phoenix came to our table, leaned over, picked up mine, which is mostly shapeless...
...nine-month strike produced an estimated 3,000 broken windshields, dozens of scuffles and nearly $65 million in court-ordered fines against the United Mine Workers union. But last week both sides in the dispute were smiling. After two months of federally mediated talks, the U.M.W. and the Connecticut- based Pittston Co. reached a tentative agreement to end the rancorous walkout that had crippled the company's coalfields in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Some 1,700 miners and 4,000 laid-off and ill union members will vote on the contract as early as next week...
...delivered by Cesarean section but lived for only 17 days. Hospitalized for more than a month, Stuart did not attend his wife's funeral. Instead, he wrote a farewell letter to her that was read at the service: "I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine, but I will always feel you. I miss you, and I love...
CASTLEWOOD, Va.--The soft, rolling, misty hills of southwestern Virginia seem an unlikely setting for a battle. But in Dickenson and Russell Counties, the nine-month United Mine Workers (UMW) strike against the Pittston Coal Company often became as hostile...