Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auction should bring in somewhere between $15 million and $30 million, which will help pay off the fair's $216 million deficit. Some of that cash will come from Expo 86 officials themselves. Expo Ernie, the stainless-steel and acrylic computerized robot that served as the fair's mascot, was acquired by Expo President Jim Pattison. Price...
...with the U.S. is its near monopoly of some strategic metals, which worries the Pentagon. If Pretoria decided to retaliate against U.S. sanctions, it could refuse to sell these materials. South Africa holds 84% of the world's known reserves of chromium, which is essential in the production of stainless steel and superalloys used in the defense, aerospace, chemical and power-generation industries. Private stocks of chromium in the U.S., which does not mine the ore, would last only a few months. South Africa has 81% of the world's platinum and its closely related metals, which are needed...
...sign was composed of 14 red plastic and stainless steel letters spelling "The Harvard Coop." The letters were 30 inches high and extended almost 60 feet. The entire sign weighed approximately...
...case focuses on $12.5 million that investors put up for research and development of the DeLorean, a sleek, stainless-steel sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. The indictment charges that beginning in 1978 DeLorean funneled much of that money into a mysterious Panamanian company called GPD Services, which in turn deposited the funds at the Pierson Bank in Amsterdam. Eventually, $8.9 million went from that bank into DeLorean's personal account at New York's Citibank. Of that amount, the indictment says, DeLorean used $7.5 million to buy Utah-based Logan Manufacturing, which makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes...
...been waitressing 40 years, 20 of them in this truck stop. As she talks she polishes the stainless steel, fills mustard jars, adds the menu inserts for today's special (hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, pot of coffee...