Word: aluminum
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...leaders of the business community, as he tried to lead his tiny nation along independent lines that often conflicted openly with American policy and interests. He pledged his country to the principles of democratic socialism, established a controversial friendship with Fidel Castro, and raised the taxes on the foreign aluminum companies which had substantial investments in the country. With Cuba enough of a thorn in its side, Washington was wary of tolerating another upstart in the neighborhood, and relations with the former British colony chilled...
Formidable obstacles faced Manley's economic plans. Primary among them was the need to make Jamaica's colonial economy--structured on the mining of bauxite for the aluminum industry and the export of sugar and bananas--more responsive to the needs of its own two million people. Manley sought to increase domestic production and foster popular participation in economic planning, thus wresting it from foreign control. He incurred the wrath of the business world by raising the taxes the foreign companies had to pay Jamaica, an attempt to bring more revenue to the island. This taxation and other measures. Manley...
...addition to protecting mobility. Its 25-mm gun is not "highly inaccurate" but exceeds rigorous Army standards in all tests to date. The sticker price is not $1.94 million but $1.1 million, and the M113 costs $180,000, not $80,000. What's more, the vehicle's aluminum armor does not vaporize, incinerate or form a fireball. The armor is not "twice as thick" as the M113's-it measures 1 in., in contrast to 1¾ in. for the M113. Antitank rockets can penetrate steel and aluminum, but aluminum has no additional casualty-producing effect...
...without entrepreneurial desires. He staged performances, did sculpture and is producing a full-length film, Empire. His art got more ambitious, involving more people both in his pictures and as assistants in the studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas-relief in aluminum depicting a horde of struggling Wall Street types: a Roman battle sarcophagus with updated clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry the theatrical idea. Longo...
Hand-carried, cheap (average cost: $150) antitank rockets, which are now standard equipment for every infantry squad in the Warsaw Pact armies, rip through the Bradley's aluminum armor like a welder's torch. Unlike steel, the aluminum vaporizes and burns, adding immense heat to the explosion inside and producing a fireball. That is not a theoretical danger. The M113 also is made of aluminum, and M113s carrying Israeli troops went up in flames in Lebanon. During the invasion, Israeli troops rode on the exposed areas of the M113-not inside it. Since the Bradley is designed...