Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make more steel per worker, the industry carried out a long-overdue modernization drive. As recently as 1974, one-quarter of all steel in the U.S. was still being produced by old-fashioned open-hearth furnaces, which take eight hours to turn molten iron into steel, compared with 45 minutes for the more efficient oxygen-fired furnaces. Since 1982, American steel companies have poured $9 billion into upgrading their mills. Open hearths now produce only 5% of domestic steel...
...miners, the press and the teachers, the Prime Minister has announced plans to reform two of the country's most prestigious professions, medicine and law. Her proposals, the most sweeping in decades, prove that Thatcher has lost none of her zeal for leading Britain toward a more open, free-market economy...
...says Baker, flashing a brief, fleeting smile. "I mean Israel. Because there's now a dialogue with Arafat, there may be many more options open in the future. But creating something productive when Israel is divided internally is going to be real tough. Who knows...
...exactly thrilled by the prospect of "E.C. '92," but a guest is present. Slowly, with his official voice in gear, the Secretary-designate rehearses the lines he will shortly repeat to the Senate during his confirmation hearings. "We've got to make sure Europe is open to all," he says. "If that means aggressively enforcing our own trade laws, so be it. I hope it doesn't come to that. It's going to take some skilled diplomacy to get the edge on that one. Tell you the truth, I can't wait to get my hands on this stuff...
...been under little or no pressure to moderate its attitude toward South Korea. Given Kim Il Sung's desire to unify Korea under his own brutal leadership, progress may be impossible until he passes from the scene. But even Kim, a pure Stalinist, has shown a willingness to open more lines of communication with Seoul, and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo himself predicts a North-South summit soon...