Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...espionage may steal advanced electronic gear from manufacturers and sell it to underground dealers in Southern California. They, in turn, offer it to all comers, with no questions asked. In one ingenious act of deception, Soviet engineers touring an aircraft plant reportedly wore sticky shoes that picked up metal filings that could later be analyzed...
...started last year, with an advertising campaign under the headline THE BOAT SHOE THAT'S ABOUT TO BLOW SPERRY TOPSIDER OUT OF THE WATER. The full-page ads claimed that the Sperry shoe had a "painted on" pigment that dries and cracks, was often machine made, used painted metal eyelets that chip, and had a less durable sole...
...concrete bulk of the building is painted pale yellow and dotted with even rows of square windows. It is decorated with seven-story-high terra cotta pilasters, set against mirror glass and capped by what looks like the metal spout of a sugar box. Above the pilasters, on the front facade, is a five-story-high keystone that is topped off by what Graves calls a baldachino, a sort of lookout. On two sides the building is garnished with masonry garlands. At first these garlands were to be metallic fluttering-in-the-wind affairs, but the city council vetoed them...
...diversify. Examples: Exxon spent $857 million during the past five years to develop uranium, copper, lead, zinc and molybdenum mines from Nevada to Papua New Guinea. But the company has lost $383 million on these operations because of the slowdown in nuclear reactor construction and a fall in metal prices. After investing nearly $1 billion in a project in Colorado to develop synthetic fuel from shale, Exxon abruptly suspended the program last spring. Exxon Senior Vice President Jack Bennett says the company still thinks that "some of these ventures may yet pay out handsomely in the future...
...more enthusiastically than scientifically, designed for him what he called a Health House. It consists of a steel frame, somewhat like a huge bird cage, daringly jutting out of a steep slope. Without sacrificing its airy appearance, the frame is enclosed in a dynamic pattern formed by window bands, metal panels sprayed with a coating of stucco and cantilevered balconies. The entrance to the house is at the top of the hill on the level of the living rooms and sleeping porches, which soar out over the valley. From there the house sort of tumbles past the library, guest rooms...