Word: coppers
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During the late 1960s and early '70s, the copper stills of Scotland worked overtime to satisfy the fast-growing taste for the country's malt whisky. The industry grew to employ 25,000 workers, and Scotch ranked as Britain's fifth-biggest export. But after peaking in 1978 at sales of $2.5 billion, Scotch has gone on the rocks. In a report issued last week' Britain's National Economic Development Office stated that distillers are working at about 50% of capacity and that industry employment has fallen by about...
...letters no less than in his paintings one sees the colors that sign his Arlesian period, the yellow, ultramarine and mauve. In the late spring, "the landscape gets tones of gold of various tints, green-gold, yellow-gold, pink-gold, and in the same way bronze, copper, in short starting from citron yellow all the way to a dull, dark yellow color like a heap of threshed corn. And this combined with the blue-from the deepest royal blue of the water to the blue of the forget-me-nots, cobalt . .." Some artists' letters are unrevealing about their work...
Narri Raelyn Copper Leverett...
Narri Raelyn Copper Leverett...
...decision on steel leaves the Reagan Administration with a mixed record on trade issues. In the spring of 1983, the President agreed to sharply higher tariffs on Japanese motorcycles to assist Harley-Davidson, the sole remaining U.S. motorcycle maker. Three weeks ago, though, he refused to protect the copper-mining industry with quotas that would have restricted imports from Chile, Peru, Zaïre and other copper-producing countries. The President has staunchly advocated free trade in speeches, but sometimes, like last week, he has compromised in its practice...