Word: rubberizing
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...stainless-steel and sealed-glass cabinets, many bearing stenciled nicknames like "African Queen" and "Tribulation Row." Fertilized eggs enter the labs in compartmented trays and move through the cabinets on conveyor belts. As they pass, the eggs are infected by lab technicians working through the cabinet walls with heavy rubber gloves and hypodermic needles. Sample eggs are then candled to determine whether the agent is properly infecting the embryos. After a brief stay in incubators, the eggs are broken, and the toxic product is separated from the embryo and put into a centrifuge to eliminate impurities. Some of the processed...
...opponents of conglomerates tell it, the usual takeover scenario is a melodramatic affair involving a helpless target company and an unscrupulous interloper. The script has been scrambled in the case of Akron's B. F. Goodrich and its ardent but so far unsuccessful suitor, Northwest Industries. The rubber company's public relations and legal fight against Northwest's four-month-old takeover bid has been waged so well that, even though it is not yet over, it is looked upon as a classic corporate counteroffensive against an unwanted but aggressive merger partner...
Meanwhile, 99-year-old Goodrich, the nation's fourth largest rubber company, was taking a rather bumpy ride. Last year it earned only 3.9% on its $1.1 billion sales, lowest profit margin among the Big Four. Goodrich was obviously vulnerable to takeover because its ownership was widely scattered and the price-earnings ratio of its shares was relatively modest. It was not long before Goodrich began to draw the attention of a number of acquisitive companies, including Northwest. Goodrich Chairman Ward Keener, a onetime economics professor, began mapping defensive strategies as early as last June...
...over the next two years, and Miami laborers will get a 70% boost over three years. The widening gap between wage rates in construction and manufacturing increases the chances of industrial strikes. Last year construction wage settlements were more than 31 times higher than those in oil, trucking and rubber, and five times the increases won by auto and cannery workers...
...time taken at stops. The rides will be soothing. The new cars will have seats comparable to those in a first-class airliner compartment, cushioned and equipped with arm rests. The floors will be covered with rich brown carpets, and much of the noise will be absorbed by rubber padding...