Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal clasp or something else should snap. Although the director has been told repeatedly that he is attempting the impossible, he perseveres, ignoring the dangers, refusing to consider abandoning his dream...
...than 10,000 World War II pilots. During the Viet Nam War, he provided pilotless jet spy planes and pioneered the V/STOL, a vertical-and short-takeoff-and-landing plane. At his death, he was awaiting FAA certification of his newest project, the ST100 Cloudster, a 100-h.p., all-metal sailplane...
...princess. Close the book, shut your eyes, dream sweet, romantic dreams, and give no thought to what "ever after" might mean, except some sort of indescribable, endless happiness. Grimm's would never have ended the story the way it really ended last week, in a tangled, twisted pile of metal at the bottom of a ravine. Fairy tales don't end in car wrecks...
That little piece of research spelled doom for the green stuff on the walls of Lowell and Winthrop Houses, both of which, during renovations, saw their ivy torn down this summer and supplanted with rather less attractive metal scaffolding...
...sabotage was to slow down the machines by feeding them parts in the wrong order, with the hope that management would be disappointed in robot performance. In other cases, employees repaired the machines incorrectly, mislaid essential spare parts or put sand into the robots' lubricating oil. In one metal construction plant, production was reduced for more than six months because of worker resistance. Other companies are certain to face similar troubles, says Nijland, unless management encourages "honest discussion with workers" about the effect robots will have on jobs...