Word: rust
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...wanted to rival the Big Three, bought the plant, and in 1947 he employed 15,000 people there. But by 1953, when the plant was sold to GM, the number had dropped to 3,000. The city was already on its way to being the epitome of the Rust Belt basket case. In 1950, Detroit had a population of nearly 1.85 million; by 1990, it had fallen to just over 1 million...
Returning from injury has a predictable path—you rehabilitate, take it easy in early contests to shake off rust, and in time hope to return to form. No one has high expectations coming out of the gate. That is, unless you are Louis Caputo.The junior co-captain of the Harvard wrestling team stormed back from a knee injury that robbed him of a 2007-08 season, refusing to miss a beat after an entire year on the sidelines.Rather than appear tentative in his return to the mat, Caputo simply dominated his opponents, winning five straight matches to claim...
...Saturday evening, Baris C. Ercal ’10 and Parker A. Lawrence ’12 were sitting on the front steps of Claverly Hall and watching the 100th anniversary celebration at the Lampoon when pieces of dirt and rust started raining down from above. A few seconds later, a piece of a railing from the top balcony of Claverly came crashing down. The blunt object ricocheted off the ground, cracked the steps, and gashed Ercal in the leg and bruised Lawrence on the calf...
...York City and Los Angeles and hear from people from around the country. News director Howard Chua-Eoan dispatched a dozen reporters to talk to autoworkers and salesmen, teachers and hairstylists, to get their own experiences in their own words. We talked to people not only in Rust Belt towns and cities that have been hit hard by the recession but also in places that have been relatively unaffected...
...himself - and within a few years the country, whose economy relied on the use of American-made products, became a shell of its former self. Food consumption decreased. Telephones and televisions were harder to come by. With no way to import American cars, Cubans watched their pre-embargo sedans rust into jalopies...