Word: copperizing
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...looking towards copper," she said. "The original roof is turncoated steel--not, in my opinion, the best type of material. And it wasn't put on properly...
This little tale tells us a good deal about the way journalists live now. It reminds us yet again of the death of the press lords -- the Hearsts, the Luces, the Lord Copper of Evelyn Waugh's barely fictional Fleet Street -- men who knew their own opinions and imposed them on the media they ran. Rupert Murdoch, buccaneer owner of Fox and much else of the world's communications business, seemed to be a throwback to those spacious days (spacious for owners). But even his empire is so segmented and authority in it so delegated that the people...
...help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest of the country," says Russell Behrmann, Utah's economic- development director of administration. When the national recession hit, the states were...
...student was working with a gram of copper cyanide in a fume hood," a safety device where a sheet of glass is used to contain possibly dangerous fumes emitting from experiments, Bochnak said yesterday. "It apparently overheated and the student was flashed with the copper cyanide...
...student whose skin came into contact with the hot copper cyanide was not severely injured. He was taken to Cambridge hospital and released the same day in good condition, Bochnak said. The student's name was not released...