101.   The budget bill is being used to decide whether private companies should pay the health care costs for thousands of retired coal miners.

102.   The daughter of a coal miner, Easterling rose through the ranks of her local union, serving as a steward, then secretary and also a vice president.

103.   The daughter of a Scottish coal miner raised in Berkeley, Coady was the only high school graduate in her family.

104.   The dispute between CRA and trade unions over workplace contracts escalated into a nationwide strike of coal miners and waterfront workers.

105.   The haves were beating the have-nots when Marvin Miller was still negotiating sick days for coal miners.

106.   The laws the NBA players are using in bargaining with David Stern were created to protect coal miners.

107.   The son of a Virginia coal miner, Hooker was raised from a young age to appreciate the value of an education.

108.   The son of a Kentucky coal miner, Wells knows about strikes.

109.   The supplicants included coal miners, asbestos victims, emphysema patients and those wanting money for Medicare and Medicaid.

110.   The women sought legal help after the firing of a sympathetic supervisor triggered a revolt reminiscent of coal miners a century ago.