Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miter-shaped red silk hats and red woolen robes walked in procession ahead of him, and barefoot male dancers in wide silk skirts described intricate patterns in the courtyard. Forty more monks stood on the roof of the building and blared out a discordant fanfare on 10-ft.-long copper horns. Thousands of silk banners and pennants fluttered in the cool breeze of the 8,000-ft.-high capital...
Live Earth. Oceanographers have already gained new insights into the creation of valuable mineral deposits, including copper, manganese and chromite. One theory, says Geologist Wilfred Bryan of Woods Hole, is that sea water circulating through fractures in the ridge's rock formations may carry off some of these minerals and concentrate them elsewhere. By learning more about such elusive processes, scientists may some day be able to predict the location of minerals in more accessible regions of the ocean. Says Geologist-Diver Robert Ballard of Woods Hole: "The earth is alive. If we can understand how it works...
...charter that outlines the country's goals for the next quarter-century. Right now, Sadat is putting major emphasis on liberalizing the economic field. Unlike its oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt has few proven petroleum reserves, although it does have deposits of iron ore, phosphate, cobalt, nickel and copper...
Karefa-Smart's political awakening came shortly after that, during a tour of East Africa. He was stunned by the exploitation of Africans in the mining industry throughout the copper belt, and, looking around, saw far more rigid repression than relatively liberal Sierra Leone had known...
...Whatever happens, most experts expect at least a temporary further bulge in living costs following the end of controls. The beginning of that bulge appeared quickly. Last week, U.S. Steel kicked up prices an average of 5.7% on its entire product line. Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge jacked up copper prices by 18%, to 800 per Ib. Chrysler added an average of almost 3% to the price of all its cars and trucks, and Westinghouse raised the price of its light bulbs by 10%. Hedonists will be hurt: the newsstand price of Playboy will...