Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best-known American steel companies have been diversifying out of the industry. U.S. Steel spent $6.2 billion to acquire Marathon Oil Co. The steel giant is now seeking to sell off a 50% interest in RMI Co., the second largest American producer of titanium, a steel-like strategic metal that is crucial to the aerospace industry, to help pay for the Marathon take over. Meanwhile, National Steel Corp., the sixth largest U.S. producer, has spent $75 million to take over savings and loans in Miami and New York. In 1978 Armco even went so far as to drop the word...
...work that has emerged from his small monastic enclave is the opposite of modern metal or glossy wood furniture. Nakashima involves himself totally, from the selection and first rough cutting of the logs to the final caress of the sandpaper. "There are a thousand intricacies and a thousand decisions," he says. "An old tree is unpredictable. It is a stirring moment when out of an inert mass drawn from nature, we set out to produce an object never before seen, an object that is useful, but with a lyric quality...
...whole thing is terrific." said Donnie Repetto '57 as he marched in a post-lunch parade from Eliot to the Union with his class mates, then wives and children (many of who were metal spring antennas), and the Harvard Band. "The Todd was superfluous--just being here with everybody is what matters...
...green plastic covered floors and metal ceilings of the Palmer-Dixon Courts have a nostalgic association for the Class of 1982 already, it's for the fall of their freshman year, when the enormous room hosted the only other extent that requires seating room for an entire class and its parents-the freshman parents' weekend luncheon...
...beans by force. As TV cameras whirred, Cryts replied, "I intend to remove my private property." Then the marshals and FBI agents, who made no secret of their sympathy for Cryts, obligingly stood aside while a tinworker from Kansas City jimmied a hole in the elevator's sheet-metal wall. With the marshals watching, the farmers spent two days hauling out Cryts' beans. When the farmers were finished, they repaired the sheet metal, repainted the elevator wall and neatly swept the grounds. Farmers around the country have since sold the beans on the open market, sending Cryts...