Word: aluminum
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...could benefit from disinflation. Pillsbury has moved from $36 a share to $46 in less than a year, and Procter & Gamble is trading near its yearly high of $87. Canny strategists are focusing on industries that should recover as the recession ebbs. Those include: home appliances, paper, forest products, aluminum and automobiles...
...miles away. The region's islands and Central American countries sorely lack the skilled manpower and other key ingredients of modern industry. The hot, tropical area simply remains the developed world's supplier of raw materials like sugar, coffee, cotton and bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is made...
...ultralight's surge in popularity is almost surreal too. There are 10,000 to 15,000 in the air, about twice as many as there were two years ago. The 30-odd manufacturers of the Dacron-and-aluminum birds, which range in price from $4,000 to $6,000, expect to sell some $90 million worth this year. Unlike many outdoor fads, ultramania is not limited to the Sunbelt, although California, Arizona, Florida and Texas are strong states; the Midwest, particularly the St. Louis area, is also ultra country, possibly because the craft fares best over flat terrain...
After months of bitter and frustrating delays, Western bankers and representatives of the Polish government finally signed an agreement last week that permitted Poland to stretch out the payment of $2.4 billion in loans, which were actually due last year. The solemn signing at the glass-and-aluminum-sheathed headquarters of the Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt removed one obstacle to the start of talks on extending the deadline on $4.6 billion that Poland is scheduled to repay banks and governments this year...
...either previous landing. The ship required nearly three miles of desert before coming to a stop, almost a mile more than before. Even before Lousma and Fullerton exited, inspectors had begun looking over the ship for damage. Though about 50 heat-shield tiles were chipped or missing, the underlying aluminum was only superficially scorched...