Word: ironization
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...sanctions ban all new investments and bank loans to South African companies and prohibit the importation of uranium, coal, textiles, iron, steel, ammunition and agricultural products produced in South Africa. The law also establishes an embargo on the export of oil and munitions to that nation...
...Georgia's exclusive Sea Island, expensive homes with white columns or wrought-iron grillwork face the Atlantic, reflecting understated elegance. But now they are being joined by an intrusive newcomer, a sprawling collage of concrete and glass. The 12,500-sq.-ft. extravagance is the creation of Atlanta Architect John Portman, whose atriums and glass elevators have entranced visitors in hotels from Los Angeles to Manhattan...
...Yuppie of Steel. When he is not chasing stories as a star journalist for the Daily Planet, he writes novels, attends evening parties and shares his inner feelings -- can we talk? -- with his friend and colleague Lois Lane. His superbody has been redrawn along Rambo lines to reflect the iron-pumping fad of the '80s. Nor does Superman come quite as cheap as he used to. Last week a new, updated version of Superman began appearing on U.S. newsstands priced at 75 cents an issue, up 10 cents from three years ago. The price hardly matters, though, to Americans...
...introduction of labor contracts may have the most far-reaching consequences. Under the lifetime-employment system, which the Chinese call the "iron rice bowl," workers can shirk their duties without fear of dismissal or reductions in pay. Their jobs are assigned, often regardless of ability or skill; indeed, most aspects of their careers are controlled by their bosses. "Because of these practices," says Qingdao Mayor Guo Songnian, "workers are slouchy and enterprises are sluggish. The job-contract system aims gradually but substantially to solve this problem...
...easy to understand King's fondness for clothbound versions. After all, it is paper more than celluloid that allows him to live in the style of a Down East grand seigneur. The family occupies a 23-room, 129-year-old house ! surrounded by a black iron fence with interwoven designs of bats and spider webs, installed in an excess of whimsy by the owners. The place is within a mile of the down-at-the-heels section of town where the Kings began their odyssey. It has an eccentric charm appropriate to the tenants: one cupola is conical, the other...