Word: copper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of scientists from the U.S., West Germany and Britain will begin their holiday celebrations by monitoring a unique experiment: the creation of the first man-made comet. A satellite orbiting some 70,000 miles above earth will release four canisters containing about 90 lbs. of barium and copper powder, worth $240,000. The powder will swell into a gaseous cloud 100 miles across that will glow pale yellow-green and then a dusky purple; as it expands, the cloud will grow a comet's classic tail...
...yielded a rich trove of Bronze Age artifacts, some of which are now at a museum in Bodrum, Turkey: 6,000 lbs. of copper ingots (the "biscuits"), a store of tin (which was combined with copper to make the bronze that gives the era its name), scattered pottery, gold objects, amphoras filled with glass beads, and some ivory from an elephant tusk and a hippopotamus tooth. Says Bass: "I can say without hesitation that this is the most exciting and important ancient shipwreck found in the Mediterranean...
...treacherous rocks and went straight down, without splintering, thus retaining much of its cargo. Bass and his fellow archaeologists were able to date the ship from at least two clues: a delicate double-handled Greek cup, similar to those made between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and the copper ingots, with their characteristic handles, which resemble one drawn on an Egyptian tomb at Thebes dating from 1350 B.C. The nationality of the vessel is suggested by the discovery of a miniature seal, no larger than a button, with markings similar to those used by the Greek merchants who dominated the ancient...
Before razing the building over the old subway exit, the Perini Construction Company the firm which handled the MBTA reconstruction, saved the structure's distinctive copper roof for eventual repair Perini duplicated the original building over the subway station and topped it off with the refurbished roof in accordance with its contract with the MBIA...
...Pacific region is not without problems. Several less-developed nations, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, have been hurt by a slump in the prices they receive for exports of raw materials such as sugar, copper, tin and oil. Observed Board Member Narongchai Akrasanee, a senior vice president of Thailand's Industrial Finance Corp.: "Commodity prices are really miserable." Even so, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have managed to maintain respectable growth rates of 4% or more. The only serious trouble spot is the Philippines, where economic mismanagement by the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos and continuing political unrest...