Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's as elitist as it was in the past," says Moan, who comes from Eugene, Ore. "I don't think it's as elitist as the public believes...
...immobile and rusting on Kesey's farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore., the vehicle symbolizes the built-in obsolescence of 1960s enthusiasms. The same can be said for Demon Box, a collection of new and previously published magazine pieces about the good old days, departed friends, family, the pull of the soil and the lure of dope. Spruced up and polished, these writings impress and entertain but seem like an attempt to squeeze a few more miles out of a writer who has either run out of gas or has been stalled by too many chemical additives...
...Force are bringing in reinforcements and supplies, while 36 helicopters fight the blazes from above. Tent cities are springing up in places with names like Sled Springs, near major conflagrations. Around the clock, caravans of yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior citizens in Enterprise, Ore., spend their mornings stuffing 1,800 beef and ham ^ sandwiches for the blaze busters' lunch. Sophisticated technology, made up of computers, radar, video cameras and satellite dishes -- dubbed the "mousetrap infrared system" -- helps pinpoint and track the fires...
...compared with $600 billion for American institutions. As the Japanese banks have seen their assets balloon, partly because of the rapid appreciation of the yen against the dollar, they have become more ambitious, aggressive and resourceful. The Japanese have bought up banks in the U.S. and Australia, financed iron-ore mining in Brazil and provided funding for the underwater Chunnel, which will link England and France. Taking their cue from Japanese manufacturers, banks like Dai-Ichi Kangyo have penetrated foreign markets partly by charging less for loans than their competitors...
...sell these materials. South Africa holds 84% of the world's known reserves of chromium, which is essential in the production of stainless steel and superalloys used in the defense, aerospace, chemical and power-generation industries. Private stocks of chromium in the U.S., which does not mine the ore, would last only a few months. South Africa has 81% of the world's platinum and its closely related metals, which are needed for many explosives and fertilizers and are essential in electronic equipment and the clean-up devices for automobile exhausts. The U.S. could get along for about six months...