Word: copper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fussily decorated palace consumed 63 tons of imported marble, ten tons of wrought iron, three tons of carved teakwood from India, onyx for inlaying, thousands of square feet of gold and copper leaf, 42 crystal chandeliers, as well as enough stained glass for 80 windows. Claimed cost of the materials...
...Copper...
Before that dramatic announcement, more than 300,000 workers had gone on strike at 600 industrial enterprises in the northern port city of Gdansk and across the Baltic coast region. Sympathy walkouts had spread to at least a dozen other cities. Strikes also broke out among copper miners and ironworkers in lower Silesia...
...Anthony dollar, heralded as a boon to bank tellers and store clerks, turned out to be a bane. Looking and feeling too much like a quarter, she may fare less well than the poker-chip-size Eisenhower dollar and the Jefferson $2 bill. Production of the nickel and copper-alloyed coin has been "temporarily postponed," says the U.S. Mint. Of the 846 million Susan B.s already minted, only 300 million are in circulation, with Susan B. dollar 30 million-a relative trickle-being added each month. The mint is thinking of changing Susan B.'s silvery color to bronze...
Some corporations are now challenging COLA payments. Steel companies last spring got the United Steelworkers to forgo a 320-an-hour COLA increase in order to pay for higher pensions for retired union members. The copper industry was willing to accept a strike this month when the union would not agree to divert a 29?-an-hour COLA increase to help pay for its benefit funds...