Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because the sanctions were never imposed uniformly by all nations, the target countries evaded the embargoes and avoided economic collapse by rerouting their trade through sympathetic allies or neutrals. Italy bought vital oil supplies from the U.S., which was not a member of the League of Nations. Rhodesia funneled chrome shipments and other exports through South Africa and Mozambique, where they were resold to other countries. Cuba eased its economic troubles by accepting aid from the Soviet Union...
...vote to approve any buyout. Workers with the greatest seniority are wary of jeopardizing their pension benefits, now as much as $25,000 a year. "I don't expect those still working to go along with any talk about making concessions," says Michael Shimko, 30, a laid-off chrome applicator...
...three agreements worth some $5.5 million in training and food, bringing total U.S. aid to Zimbabwe to $42.7 million in 1982. Even with such aid, a severe drought is expected to reduce the nation's agricultural output this year by 20%, and depressed prices for such exports as chrome, nickel and copper have led bankers to predict a sharp slowing of Zimbabwe's economic growth, to 3% or less in the coming year from a robust 8% just last year...
...caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were taken down, but the walls of smoked glass and the polished chrome bar tables were left in place...
...York's Haitian Refugee Center, some 30,000 people have been killed in Haiti over the last few years. In fact, he notes, there are 35 jails per school and 189 soldiers per teacher in Haiti. When the President-for-Life appears at public ceremonies, he carries a chrome-plated revolver in his hand...