Word: platinum
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...order to cut down on imports and improve the balance of payments. The result is that the stockpile is sadly depleted. Only 21 of the 62 basic materials in storage are now in sufficient supply to meet national security requirements. For instance, the U.S. imports virtually all of its platinum-group metals, which are used for oil-refining equipment and to make catalytic converters for automobiles. Yet the Government has stockpiled just 35% of the amount of platinum that it believes the country needs to hold in reserve...
Administration officials now worry that the Soviet Union, which has large strategic minerals resources, plans to reduce exports and step up purchases on the world market in competition with the West. That could endanger U.S. supplies of chromium and platinum, for example. A study by Dr. Daniel Fine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mining and Minerals Research Institute concluded last year that the Soviet Union is becoming a net purchaser of key minerals as a way of protecting its own reserves. Said Interior Secretary James Watt: "Our dependence on foreign supplies jeopardizes our defense posture. We think...
...film dispenses with the machismo verismo of Luchino Visconti's 1942 Ossessione and the platinum-blinded glitz of the 1946 version starring John Garfield and Lana Turner to concentrate on a purposefully paced retelling of Cain's story. It means to calibrate every movement in the desperate mating dance of Frank and Cora, "these unspeakably stupid, very simple people, filled with guile and tenderness." That is Director Rafelson's phrase, spoken without contempt for his characters but with an understanding of their selfish, consuming needs. Though Nick's café is just a short drive from...
...small child, and then flies off to the West African state of Zangaro, modelled loosely on Uganda. He is doing reconaissance for a big, unidentified, corporate interest which wants to make sure Zangaro's repressive regime is stable so it can start carting off the nation's platinum at low prices. (For further references, see "Middle East...
...admits. "I love Sinatra and Eddie Fisher. Yet I really loved the Beatles." The only folks who don't seem at all confused-or at least don't care if they are-are the millions of fans who have given Diamond, by his own reckoning, 20 platinum and gold albums and over 30 hit singles, including 1978's You Don't Bring Me Flowers, a duet with Barbra Streisand. Diamond loyalists right now are making their boy's latest efforts two of the year's hottest records. Love on the Rocks, a typically canny...