Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar affects everyone, from American consumers and manufacturers to Third World borrowers, and the effects of the strong U.S. currency were felt last week far beyond money-exchange markets. In New York, gold prices dropped to a two-year low of $338 an ounce, as speculators dumped the precious metal to invest in dollars. In Chicago, commodities prices fell as well, further depressing goods as varied as soybeans and lumber. Since May, commodities prices have dipped nearly 9%, in part because of the rush to buy dollars...
...Rockies last October. The tremors interrupted the underground-waterstreams that feed the geyser from mysterious sources and diverted them into new channels. Visitors to Yellowstone Park are not entirely blameless either: over the past six months, the geyser has spewed up coins, bottles, a door hinge, part of a metal clipboard and random fragments of oak furniture...
...exists here somewhere, mostly in the madcap race between government agents, two groups of thugs of all stripes, and the heroic repo men for the '64 Chevy commandeered by J. Frank Parnell. There is something slightly extraterrestrial about this car, and it interests the government radiation squad, beaded by metal-handed Agent Rogersz. The thieves, the no-good Rodreiguez brothers and a three-man gang of punk liquor store robbers, also want the car- for the money, apparently, as do the repo men, who are interested in a $20,000 commission for impounding the vehicle...
...Cambridge Electron Accelerator was shut down in the 1970s, as better and faster accelerators became necessary. No longer are accelerators costing millions of dollars adequate to do high level work; instead, today's top facilities--containing miles and miles of metal--run into the billions...
...just off Mass. Ave.) mean cheap pitchers of cheap beer, quite simply the cheapest place in the neighborhood to kill those brain cells and get really sick. The rest of the week features different specials, though the crowd is a little rougher. The jukebox, which plays horrible heavy metal music, is loud, but liquor comes first, and everyone there is dedicated to its consumption in large quantities...