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...crew was blasting three adjacent faces at once, compounding the risks further. But the faster the coal can be blasted out, the better for an underfinanced operator, whose urge for greater productivity often leads to recklessness. Although Stanley shut down 31 Kentucky mines for violations after the recent spate of deaths, many small operators still ignore safety standards when blasting underground...
...work week, granted on Jan. 31 after decades of six-day work weeks in Poland. But that only aggravated the economic crisis by further reducing production?especially in the coal-mining industry, whose output fell by nearly 10% in 1981. In addition, the country was soon swept by a spate of wildcat strikes over local issues. In some cases, Solidarity chapters were taking on the Communist Party bureaucracy by demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials or the conversion of party buildings to public hospitals...
Across Cambridge a spate of large development projects are quietly nearing the start of construction, assistant city manager for community development David Vickery said yesterday. "You'll see a lot going on in the next year," he promised...
What's more, the current spate of bombings could hurt one of the most promising approaches to working out an eventual settlement in Ireland: the hopes of Garret FitzGerald, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland in June, to pave the way for eventual unification of Ulster and the republic. FitzGerald would like to see the establishment of an Anglo-Irish council, including Protestant and Catholic representatives from Ulster and members of the British and Irish parliaments, to promote better relations between Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. This week FitzGerald is scheduled to meet with...
...inextricably tangled between aesthetics, money and ideas. But dealing with ideas, at least on the level this subject needs, is not Wolfe's forte. As in The Painted Word, he ends up doing what he accuses his bogies of: the meaning of the work is drowned in a spate of "theory," and each time the theory is undercut by Wolfe's stridently commonsensical attitudes. These, after a while, read like condescension, as a rigid adherence to the surface usually does. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme pose. -By Robert Hughes