Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the losses continue to pile up. As steel prices plummeted by about 50% between 1974 and 1977, Europe lost $30 or so on every ton sold. The overall deficit last year was about $3 billion, with the nationalized British Steel Corp. accounting for $1.6 billion of the total. The French industry, saddled with a $10 billion debt?Europe's highest?was in effect taken over reluctantly last September by the government. West Germany, Europe's biggest steel producer, has lost the least (about $625 million), perhaps because in the past three years it laid off the most workers...
...British lion may be muted, but Shakespeare still roars. His voice thunders and echoes through the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Coriolanus at London's Aldwych Theater. The play takes place on two fronts, the field of battle and the jugular terrain of class...
...Crimson brigade of distance swimmers is a potentially devastating collection of talent. First there's Hackett and his sidekick Mike Coglin. One time British national team member Coglin, last year's Eastern champ in the 400-yd. individual medley, commenced his second season for Harvard by winning two of his other specialties, the 500-yd. and 1000-yd. freestyles, in impressive fashion last Saturday. Add to this duo three-time high school All-American freshman Tim Maximoff, fellow Californian Phil Atkinson, and local hero Jack Gauthier (see freshman profiles), and you can understand why opponents will be seeing red when...
...professional man of letters, like the shepherd and the blacksmith, is a vanishing species, found mainly in the British Isles. William Plomer, who died in 1973 at the age of 69, was a notable specimen. He made his debut at 21 with Turbott Wolfe, a novel that Leonard and Virginia Woolf recognized as a minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down...
Dank dungeons, gothic ruins and rainswept mountain peaks are fine for inducing the creeps. But when it comes to high-grade macabre, there's no place like home. Take the London house furnished by British Author Ian McEwan, 29, in this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father...