Word: coppers
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Widener, in particular, is in the midst of significant renovation designed to create a more conducive environment for book preservation. In 1982, an anonymous donor gave the Harvard Campaign $2 million to install a new copper roof on Widener. Workers will begin replacing many Widener windows--but not all, because of fiscal constraints--with double-glazed units in preparation for installing air conditioning and humilty control. And the building's electrical wiring--geared to a 1915 burden of just larger not electric typewriters or computer terminals--also needs substantial work...
Battered by cheap imports from Chile, Peru and Zaire, U.S. copper mining has been tarnished in the past few years. The twelve major producers now employ a mere 25,000 workers, down 50% in ten years, and the mines, primarily in the Rocky Mountain states, are running at 60% of capacity. Copper consumption is up 14% this year from last, but American mines simply cannot match competitors in the Third World. They have kept output high and prices down to around 60? per lb., vs. the 82? average cost of U.S. production. Despite those troubles, the Reagan Administration last week...
...mining gold in a remote area of Argentina. The Astrologer explains: "See? We'll lure the workers in with false promises and whip them to death if they won't work." Erdosain feels flattered to be included among the brains of this organization. His invention of a copper-plated rose, once perfected and put into production, will provide capital for the fledgling revolution, as will the string of bordellos the Astrologer plans to establish. Anticipating power, Erdosain dreams himself in a chamber at the bottom of the sea: "On the other side of the porthole, one-eyed sharks...
...growth of the bay area's population has been accompanied by the peril of pollution. The EPA found high concentrations of such heavy metals as copper, cadmium and lead in rivers flowing into the bay from Baltimore, Washington and other cities; high levels of organic compounds, including PCB's, Kepone and DDT, were detected in Pennsylvania and Virginia rivers that flow into...
...steel and copper complaints were timed so that the President would have to decide what to do in the heat of an election campaign. Though Ronald Reagan claims to be a free trader at heart, he has supported quotas and other restraints on imports of autos, textiles, sugar, motorcycles and steel. Administration officials argue that these actions were political concessions necessary to prevent Congress from imposing even tighter restrictions on imports...