Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote in the sheet metal workers case, the court rejected the administration's position that only actual victims of discrimination may benefit from court-ordered affirmative action remedies...
...other, the court upheld a ruling that a union representing sheet metal workers in New York and New Jersey must significantly raise its non-white membership by August...
...speakers. Ken easily convinces him that bigger is better, and introduces him to the eight-foot Dominator speaker. The kid practically drools, violently playing air-guitar, ready to fork over his grandmother, when in walks his girlfriend, 17, barefoot and pregnant. Stricken with remorse, Ken turns down the heavy metal that throbs from the Dominator, and shows the underpriveleged couple a smaller model...
Locally they are known as "scraphogs," and a few wear T shirts with a cartoon of a wild boar grinding a bomb in its teeth. Just after dawn each day, about 40 gather at the hillside, pick up pails and sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and twisted steel. They occasionally dig up the nozzle of a Polaris missile or the casing of a 1,000-lb. bomb. Under the pitiless Nevada sun, each averages 1,000 lbs. of scrap metal a day. "It's rough work," says Billy Marshall of Hawthorne, Nev. "When I started, young...
...from the nearby Schurz reservation --work in syncopated drudgery. "They're a pretty nice bunch of guys," says Mike Cook, 31, an out-of-work miner from Tombstone, Ariz., who lives with his wife and four kids in a car to save money. Hoisting a 40-lb. piece of metal, he adds, "You have to be pretty crazy to be a scraphog...