Word: copper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abecedarians, people who are learning the alphabet. This season they and their families are in luck: three ABC books offer a bright amalgam of sophistication and simplicity. In Pigs from A to Z (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), Arthur Geisert's suite of copper etchings follows siblings with curly tails and mischievous minds as they construct a wolfproof tree house by the letters. En route, the illustrator-author ingeniously employs words that describe his book (eerie, ideal, spectacular) and performs the hardest task in children's literature: enlightening with surprises...
...real estate, worth an estimated $10 billion. The glittering centerpiece: their new $1.5 billion Battery Park City project, part of a vast new chunk of Wall Street waterfront created on 92 acres of landfill in Manhattan. Among the companies ensconced in Olympia & York's elegant copper-and-granite towers there: Merrill Lynch, American Express and Dow Jones...
...minutes the 1,712 delegates to the annual Labor Party conference in the seaside resort of Blackpool stood and roared an ovation for the man they believe has rescued them from political extinction. From Labor's perspective, the tribute was richly deserved. Neil Kinnock, 44, the copper-haired Welshman with a silver tongue, inherited a divided and demoralized party three years ago. Militant leftists threatened his leadership, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, fresh from a landslide election victory, held a commanding lead in opinion polls. Kinnock has changed all that. At Blackpool he gave a masterly demonstration...
...cultural arbiters are busy just now granting the maverick Gehry their imprimatur. Currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is the first major museum show of his work, an elaborate installation for which Gehry designed a 23-ft.-high freestanding copper structure, a fish-shaped enclosure, complete with lead "scales," for the exhibition of his fish-shaped Formica- chip lamps and a cardboard space for the exhibition of his cardboard furniture. "I'm trying to pretend it's not a big deal," Gehry said just before the opening in Minneapolis. "But it's a big deal...
...part of an industry-wide drive to cut costs, most of today's gold mines are surface, or open-pit, operations, a method used in copper and coal mining. The new excavations can take as long as eight years to start up, but then can handle thousands of tons of low-grade ore daily. The latest mines make use of a chemical technique called heap leaching to reduce costs. The procedure involves the spraying of crude ore with a cyanide solution that absorbs microscopic amounts of gold as it filters through the heaps of rock. After further processing...