Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...individual plants. When Ford Motor Co failed to extract concessions from the U.A.W. at its unprofitable Rouge steelmaking operations, it announced plans to curtail production sharply. Four days later, the union accepted concessions, and the mill was kept open. When U.A.W. workers at Ford's Sheffield, Ala., aluminum-casting plant did not accept 50% wage and benefit cuts or the company's offer to sell them the plant, it was closed last June...
...neither has materialized. The U.S. is partly to blame. Key trade concessions contained in the Reagan Administration's Caribbean Basin Initiative have been held up for almost two years in Congress, while the U.S. recession reduced demand for Jamaican exports like bauxite, which is used to produce aluminum. From 12 million tons in 1980, Jamaica's bauxite exports fell to 7 million tons this year...
...least two puzzling sources of X rays. These could not be observed under the earth's obscuring atmosphere. In a bit of zero-g alchemy, the astronauts succeeded in creating an entirely new alloy. Under the benevolent influence of microgravity, they were able to form a mix of aluminum and zinc, two metals that cannot easily be combined on earth. Extremely strong yet lightweight, the alloy, if it could be produced in mass quantities in space, might be useful for superstructures of airplanes or spacecraft...
...Alaska temperatures are expected to be below freezing with a foot of snow on the ground when Harvard and Yale aluminum gather at the National Bank of Alaska for a brunch open for and The Game...
...president Susan Bachrach said that the fraternity sponsors another traditional MIT contest every Spring. That contest is called "The Big Screw" where a member of the faculty or staff is awarded a 3-foot-long aluminum screw for having the distinction of "screwing" the students most...