Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the coasts have enjoyed rapid growth in high technology and such service industries as banking, advertising and insurance, many heartland states have been held back by their dependence on depressed agriculture, oil and declining smokestack industries. The virtual disappearance of inflation (consumer prices did not rise at all in July, and for the first seven months of 1986 they actually declined .2%) has had uneven regional effects. % Overall stability has masked what a Reagan Administration official calls a "worldwide deflation" in commodity prices that has struck hard at farmers. More recently, the collapse of oil prices has depressed states...
...directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name was obscured by "rivers of rust," then explored the foredeck and port side, where the scientists spotted portholes, the glass unbroken. They saw where the Titanic had split apart, just behind the third smokestack...
...White House was vague about where money would be found to carry out the Lewis-Davis report's recommendations, or how the Midwest's beleaguered smokestack industries could be induced to pay their share. Still, Mulroney could claim symbolic achievement in getting Reagan to come down out of the clouds--and trees--on the problem. Before Reagan's turnabout, as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Allan Gotlieb put it, "acid rain was dead in the water, just like the fish...
...change became necessary when Philip Morris bought General Foods. Philip Morris was a suitable replacement for General Foods, but then American Brands had to be dropped to avoid having two cigarette makers among the 30. The Journal editors also wanted to shift the index away from smokestack industries, which are overrepresented in the elite group. McDonald's provided a golden opportunity and reflected the continuing growth of the service sector in the economy...
While the Argo was being maneuvered around the Titanic, Ballard revealed, it had a couple of close calls, once hitting the bridge, another time brushing against a smokestack. Despite his initial alarm, neither the Argo nor the Titanic was damaged in these encounters. But in the process, the submersible collected the only artifact so far brought up from the great liner: a smudge of paint scraped from the smokestack. Ballard also disclosed that after "mowing the lawn" with highly advanced technological gear (sweeping his sonar back and forth and checking its soundings with a magnetometer), the expedition had actually located...