Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national hookup provided evidence for another Bread Loaf belief: children will write freshly when given a new audience. Students in the tiny ranching community of Wilsall, Mont., began writing to children in Pittsburgh about farm life in winter. "Cows aren't smart enough to paw through the snow like horses, so you have to feed them," one child explained. A Sioux student on a reservation in South Dakota wrote candidly about what is happening to one branch of the tribe: "Life for the Lakota people is going in a downward direction . . . To control it would take great human power...
...favored company is the Pittsburgh-based Dravo Corp., which in 1983 underbid four other builders to win a $102.9 million contract to construct a steam plant for the Navy at the Portsmouth, Va., shipyard. When Dravo discovered its design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political...
Sooner or later everybody hears about Homestead, a dwindling Pennsylvania mill town of 5,092 souls just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. It was the site of historic labor-management strife in 1892, when striking workers lost a bloody (ten dead) battle with armed, union-busting Pinkerton agents hired by the Carnegie Steel Co. More recently, after U.S. Steel (now the USX Corp.) closed a plant that had provided about 15,000 jobs, the town commanded attention as a victim of the economic tides that have sunk smokestack industries. Last week Homestead blurted into national attention yet again -- this...
...straws," a 27-year-old unemployed mechanic said last week as he stood talking with a couple of friends on a downtown street corner. "When they come up to you, they almost make you feel guilty." In an equally disdainful tone, a 23-year-old in the uniform of Pittsburgh's Institute of Security and Technology added, "When there's trouble out there, the cops aren't ever around." Yet only a handful of black men, six or so, refused to be printed, while some 125 volunteered...
...expensive, ranging in price from $30,000 to $200,000 apiece. But these bulky hydraulic machines, originally programmed to perform tasks by means of magnetic tape similar to that used in tape recorders, were often inaccurate and susceptible to breakdowns. Says Raj Reddy, director of the Robotics Institute at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University: "U.S. companies dragged their feet on innovation because they wanted to squeeze every last penny out of their existing equipment." Despite those drawbacks, in the early 1980s hydraulic robots appeared to be the best workhorses available for such automated tasks as parts assembly, materials handling...