Word: milles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...These foundations are a wonder to behold," says George Trentz wistfully as he stands before a row of crumbling concrete walls, virtually all that remains of the former Kaiser Steel Corp.'s mill in this town, an hour's drive east of Los Angeles. The plant, once 20 stories high and 100 yds. long, has been reduced to a ruin, and as workers with acetylene torches continue their cutting, Trentz watches the factory where he worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just...
...world. The two huge Voest-Alpine furnaces could produce up to 2.8 million tons of high- grade carbon steel annually. But soon after Kaiser built the plant (at a cost of $287 million), the company encountered new environmental regulations and rapidly rising union wages that made the mill noncompetitive with overseas producers. Within five years Kaiser shut the plant down. For a decade the BOP shop came to life only occasionally as a movie set -- in 1990, for example, the finale of Arnold Schwarzenegger's apocalyptic Terminator II was filmed here...
...China could build a new steel mill like this one," says Wang Shengli, who is overseeing the project. "We bought this one because we can have it operating sooner than if we built our own." The mill will be put up in the southern Guangxi region; the cost of dismantling, moving and reconstructing it will be at least $400 million...
...Fontana mill is the largest plant bought in the U.S. and taken home by the Chinese, but it is hardly the only one. In North Carolina the Chinese picked up a secondhand nuclear-plant control room, in Pennsylvania they purchased a used microchip-making facility, and in Michigan they bought an auto-engine assembly line. If China's economy keeps going along as it has been, the steel, microchips and engines made in these newly exported plants may ironically come back to America one day -- as imports...
Luxury was scarce in William John Neeson's early life. He grew up in the mill town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. A strapping lad, he was a youthful boxing champion. "I thought I wanted to be professional. But I realized I didn't have the killer instinct." Soon he was driving a forklift at the Guinness brewery in Belfast by day, and at night filling the Lyric Theatre stage with roles like that of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred...