Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dalles, Ore...
...caught in the grip of Murphy's Law: if anything can go wrong, it will. They are beset by production cutbacks and layoffs, Government pressure to restrain price increases while spending heavily to comply with antipollution rules, and the industry's first sizable strike (by iron-ore workers) since 1959. Executives have also begun squabbling among themselves. Last week Armco Steel not only refused to go along with an industry price boost of 6% on structural steel, but announced that in the lower Midwest and Gulf Coast regions it would offer deeper discounts...
Many more mills may close-and much earlier-if the strike of 15,000 iron-ore workers that began Aug. 1 drags on. Though the industry is governed by a much praised agreement that bans strikes over "economic" issues, the miners contend that their demand for incentive pay (mainly bonuses for exceeding production norms) is a "local" issue, about which strikes are permitted. For now, mills can feed their blast furnaces with stockpiled ore, but if the strike continues another three or four months-and it could-they would start to run short...
...Cosmos were returning from the West Coast, where before an S.R.O. crowd of 35,548 in Portland, Ore., they had won the N.A.S.L. title by beating the Seattle Sounders, 2-1. The size of the crowd had been limited only by the capacity of the Portland stadium; millions watched on television in the U.S. and around the world. Reflecting the popularity of soccer outside the U.S., the game had been beamed to ten countries. Though only a few years ago, soccer attendance in the U.S. seldom exceeded a few thousand, during the just completed N.A.S.L. season, soccer fans flocked...
Portland, Ore...