What's the difference between horsehead and moonfish?

Horsehead


Definition:

  • (n.) The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).

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  • (1) In fact, all the jobs I have been offered so far have been worth $14 an hour instead of the $20 I was making at Horsehead," he says.
  • (2) "The job offers I'm getting are way worse than what I used to make at Horsehead," Jeffers says.
  • (3) Monaca is a prime example of the tradeoffs of reshoring: as the Horsehead plant closes and takes 700 jobs with it, a new Shell petrochemical plant will take up residence in the county.
  • (4) As John Jeffers, the Horsehead union boss, winds down his fight to secure the future of his colleagues, he is also thinking about his own future.
  • (5) In the late 1980s, he, like many of his childhood friends, took a job in a factory at the the Horsehead Corporation plant in Monaca, which produces both prime western zinc for brass-making and zinc oxide to make Michelin tires.
  • (6) None of the possible solutions – from educational reform to infrastructure investment – will come in time to help the workers at the Horsehead plant.
  • (7) Horsehead, struggling with high electricity prices and the cost of new environmental regulations, failed to get tax incentives it wanted from the state of Pennsylvania to reduce its costs.
  • (8) It will take patience and a deep compromise: the Shell plant's construction is years away, and it will employ 225 workers compared to Horsehead's 700 employees, 500 of whom have union jobs.

Moonfish


Definition:

  • (n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
  • (n.) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.
  • (n.) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.

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