Word: stainless-steel
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...case, the real reason for Ford's decision was not economic. His political advisers were convinced that Congress would force acceptance of the ITC recommendation, so Ford might as well impose quotas and take the credit. The stainless-steel case is only the first of several that the President must resolve soon. By May 20, he must decide whether to raise tariffs sharply on imported shoes; by June 1, he must make a similar decision on stainless-steel flatware. Present prospects give no comfort to free-traders...
...jargon the nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...
...fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand. To operate the arm and its hand properly, Hilton moves his remaining arm muscles selectively; their...
...game of intricate barbarity, rollerball requires a certain dexterity and a pronounced taste for slaughter. Jonathan, followed and protected by the rest of his team from Houston, skates about a large indoor track, holding a stainless-steel ball. The object is to penetrate the opposition's line of defense and deposit the ball in a magnetic goal...
...placing their parents in Los Angeles' Keiro (which translates as Home for Respected Elders), a 184-bed facility that bespeaks the Oriental tradition that old age should be a time of ease. Keiro's appeal ranges from chaste Japanese decor to good food served from a gleaming stainless-steel kitchen. The home also has a largely bilingual staff that is genuinely interested in the welfare of its patients, and a program that includes everything from physical rehabilitation to concerts on traditional Japanese instruments...