Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, Harvard athletes can rest assured that the sports news office is operating full-steam ahead in its 12-months-a-year publicity campaign...
...everyone has heard of -- the cow that started the Chicago fire, Little Egypt gyrating, Cyrus McCormick looming dourly over his agricultural-machine factory, or (in a crypt below the graveyard of New York's Trinity Church) the skeletons of Alexander Hamilton in his wig and Robert Fulton with his steam engine. Ruckus America is all one big pop-up book, done in an impressively resourceful, oompahing parade of stylistic parodies: corn-pone cubism, red- neck deco. The way buildings splay and their ground cants toward the viewer comes straight out of German expressionist cinema...
...favored company is the Pittsburgh-based Dravo Corp., which in 1983 underbid four other builders to win a $102.9 million contract to construct a steam plant for the Navy at the Portsmouth, Va., shipyard. When Dravo discovered its design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political...
...while, it looked as if the steam had gone out of the much touted campaign by U.S. prosecutors against insider trading on Wall Street. Only last May, for example, the feds dropped charges against three investment-banking executives, though new indictments may be brought. But last week the campaign against wrongdoing in Manhattan's financial community took another step forward as Lawyer Israel Grossman, 34, was found guilty on 38 counts of mail and securities fraud related to insider trading. Grossman, who will be $ sentenced Sept. 15, faces a maximum of five years in jail and a $250,000 fine...
...kilns buy more of the cheaper log slabs -- the cutoff outsides of logs when they are squared by a sawmill into lumber. These, along with the hardwood, are charred in kilns, put through a hammermill and mixed with charred sawdust, coal, limestone, sodium nitrate, borax, wheat paste and steam, which turns the mixture into a slurry that is pressed into briquettes and then put through a drying process...