81. Opportunities abound, yet coal miners would rather choke on coal dust than change their location or occupation. 82. Opposing a binding treaty are car makers and corn farmers, steel mills and oil refineries, electricity producers and the coal miners who stoke their boilers. 83. Our dad was a third-generation coal miner who lost his father to black lung disease and his grandfather to a mine collapse. 84. People in the riskiest jobs, like coal miners, have always paid more for life insurance, and they still do. 85. Rymkus, the son of a coal miner, grew up in Chicago and became an All-America offensive tackle at Notre Dame under Frank Leahy. 86. Schmidt had for years earned his keep as a coal miner in Illinois. 87. Russian coal miners have not received paychecks for at least three, and in some regions seven, months. 88. She played a brief tape of Pete Seeger singing about coal miners, for example, and asked the class what information they could glean from the song. 89. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., wants to allow coal miners to keep dumping slag into streams. 90. Significantly, the coal miners spurned the garb. |