Word: metallics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shanxi province. He had a reputation as a can-do fellow, but, like his neighbors, he was earning not much more than $30 a month. Then, in response to a daring new government policy that encouraged country people to develop their own moneymaking projects, Ju began building and marketing metal frames for the battery chargers used by local coal miners. Soon demand for his high-quality but economical merchandise started to snowball. Customers multiplied; orders boomed. By 1984, thanks to his success in manufacturing a product that the country badly needed, Ju had amassed a considerable fortune...
...prisoners were being delivered to the U.S. courthouse in Seattle, the security was stricter than at any other time in memory. Parking was prohibited in all areas nearby. More than 30 deputy marshals imported from around the nation stood on duty with shotguns and rifles. In addition to the metal detector that is normally in use at the building's main entrance, a second magnetometer was installed to screen all who entered the courtroom. As one final precaution, officials bolted down the chairs to be occupied by the prisoners and their lawyers. Overkill? Said Chief Deputy Robert Christman of Seattle...
...console screen to his left that showed the status of his 24 weapons, he ordered, "Make missiles ready." In the missile control center one deck below, Weapons Officer Lieut. John Hardenbergh worked at two other consoles that control the silos and the firing of the missiles. Both men have metal keys, each of which must be turned in their console before ignition can occur...
...real emergency, Campion would next reach for an 8-in. by 10-in. painted red metal box sealed by two combination locks. Each officer knows one, but not both, of the combinations. Inside are further authenticating documents, plus the keys needed to activate the missiles. To prevent such an action from occurring on the judgment of a single officer, the locks into which the keys fit are situated 12 ft. apart and must be turned simultaneously...
Outside the U.S. embassy building in Moscow last week, a redheaded girl sat dejectedly on a metal railing. A Soviet dissident? An American with passport problems? Hardly. It was Amy Carter, 17, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, on a tour with a group of 150 Americans. Earlier, she and four friends, having heard about the cheeseburgers and French fries served at the embassy's snack bar, had arrived to have lunch. "They wouldn't let us in," Amy said. The snack bar, it seems, is open only to permanent members of Moscow's American community who purchase chits...