Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imaginations? Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger...
There is one major catch. "This is the biggest telephone rip-off in the country," says John Field, enforcement chief of the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). "All the con artists in the world got out of aluminum siding and land sales and into commodity options." The New York State attorney general's office and the CFTC, in a complaint filed jointly in federal district court in Manhattan, have charged 30 companies and 37 individuals in eight states and Panama with illegally selling oil futures contracts. These commit the buyer to purchase petroleum for either delivery...
...inflation get the best of us. And the more it costs me, the more I have to work." To cut energy costs, DeRienzo and his wife Mary have turned down the thermostat at their ranch-style house in Danvers, shut off two rooms and installed aluminum siding. But other expenses cannot be trimmed: his daily 26-mile commute has become more costly, and his daughter-the middle of three children-is still running up education bills as she works for her doctorate in psychology at Syracuse University...
...they experimented with artificial legs to discover the ideal running ground and came up with the celebrated new track for Harvard's Indoor Tennis and Track Building. The track has both improved the team's times and decreased its injuries. In their lifesized dummy of the human leg, aluminum bars substitute for bones, simple springs for muscles and a fluid shock absorber for tendons. When the same surface they designed from their model was put down in Madison Square Garden, records fell and McMahon and Greene found themselves sought after by the unlikely technical journals, Sports Illustrated...
...course, companies can do more to develop secondary and tertiary sources, many of which will become both economically feasible and absolutely necessary as conventional minerals become costlier in the 1980s. For example, the U.S. imports 93% of its bauxite, the major aluminum ore, but the Bureau of Mines is experimenting with a process to extract alumina from clays found in Georgia and Arkansas. More experiments, more domestic mining and some compromises on the environmental front would help avoid repetition of the oil saga of the 1960s and 1970s, when the U.S. became needlessly overdependent on dubious foreign suppliers...