Word: stainless
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Still, the fundamental formula is remarkably unchanged. Just as in earlier times, there are tools, furniture, appliances and gardening equipment. A woman 87 years ago could have bought half a dozen sterling-silver forks for $10.85. Today her great-granddaughter can pick up a 20-piece set in stainless steel for $14.99. Refined versions of the old puffery remain: "Where else would you find such a wide selection of colors and such an incredible value?" reads an ad for women's shoes...
Sitting in a stainless-steel vat of liquid nitrogen at Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne, chilled to a crisp-320° F, are 200 glass tubes, each holding a microscopic embryo. Just two to eight cells in size, they are babies in waiting, life on ice, kept for possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder...
...sequence of events that led to the disaster began last November. Sotelo, then a $35-a-week hospital electrician with a family of three, took a milk bottle-size, stainless-steel canister from the hospital's warehouse. Sotelo says hospital administrators had given him permission to sell leftover utensils for scrap. He heaved the canister into the back of a hospital truck and hauled it to a local junkyard, where a dealer gave him $10 for it. Unfortunately, Sotelo and the dealer were unaware that the canister was part of a radiography machine and contained a capsule that held...
...fourth biggest, will sign a consent decree requiring the merged company to sell off two Republic plants in Gadsden, Ala., and Massillon, Ohio, within six months after the deal goes through. The Alabama plant makes hot-and cold-rolled carbon and plate steel, while the Ohio one produces sheet stainless steel. The Justice Department said that paring down the production capacity of the new company will put the agreement within its antitrust guidelines...
...merged company will be called, will replace Bethlehem Steel as America's second-largest producer, J. Paul McGrath behind U.S. Steel. After some inefficient operations are phased out, the new firm will have the capacity to produce 19 million tons annually and will concentrate on flat-rolled, bar, stainless and tubular steel. Its headquarters will be located at Republic's Cleveland offices...