Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the American still-wine business has gone flat in recent years, American wine makers have rushed into the fizz biz. Recent entries include Sebastiani and Iron Horse. The U.S. now has more than 100 brands of domestic sparkling wine, up from 56 in 1979. Schramsberg, the highly regarded Napa Valley brand that President Reagan served last spring at an official dinner in China, expects to sell some 28,000 cases of sparkling wine in 1984, 17% more than last year. Two of France's leading champagne producers, Moët-Hennessy and Piper-Heidsieck, have established wineries...
...world's industrial leader, the U.S. has 219 operating oil refineries, more than any other country. It is crisscrossed by 250,000 miles of oil pipelines and 1.3 million miles of natural gas conduits. Sometimes refineries and storage tanks are clumped together like rusting armadas of iron behemoths, belching smoke into the sky. Along the New Jersey Turnpike, near the towns of Linden and Carteret, many oil storage tanks are higher than a ten-story apartment building. Should a plane from nearby Newark International Airport crash into that complex, the resulting fireball could engulf one of the most heavily...
...company's most publicized environmental problems have involved pollution. In the late 1960s, environmentalists charged that a Union Carbide iron-alloy plant in Alloy, W Va., was "the smokiest factory in the world." Since then, the company has reduced smokestack emissions at its factories and adopted measures to ensure the safe disposal of chemical wastes...
...Father Teofil Bogucki, delivered a tough homily charging that 40 years after the imposition of Communism in Poland, "society is paralyzed with terror and people are worn out by hopelessness." As the subdued crowd joined in reciting prayers and singing patriotic hymns, two youths climbed the church's iron fence to put up a new banner. The message: O LORD, FORGIVE THEM. But as Jaruzelski knows, it will take more than sincere words to make national reconciliation a reality in Poland...
Most solids are denser than their corresponding liquids; for example, an iron nail sinks to the bottom of a cauldron of molten iron...