Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what does the candidate propose to do about high unemployment among steelworkers? He announced a plan to negotiate with foreign governments for a 30% reduction in the amount of low-cost steel exported...
Other guest speakers include journalists, consultants, and David Steel, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...being expended to repair its bleak, Brutalist facade, it occurs to me that the University, in all its puissance, has a felicitious opportunity to join the M.B.T.A. in upgrading Harvard Square: why not construct a massive neo-Georgian veneer over the building to conceal forever the cold concrete and steel form that is so reminiscent of the very worst of post-war Britain. Dr. T.C. Bardwell
...addition, the automakers have been trying to increase efficiency and productivity by replacing blue-collar workers with steel-collar ones-robots. Over the past three years, the Big Three automakers have installed 3,000 robots to handle welding, painting and other tasks previously done by U.A.W. members. As company executives like to quip, those new workers never take coffee breaks and always show up for work on Monday...
...bird, it's a plane, it's (Can you see it coming?) Superman in a plane. Christopher Reeve, 32, who soared to fame as the Man of Steel, is starring next in The Aviator as a rugged, '20s mail pilot. His plane crashes, and Reeve is marooned on a mountain with the companion able Rosanna Arquette. Reeve, an experienced pilot who has soloed across the Atlantic, did all his own flying in the film, a claim he cannot make about his earlier aerial incarnation...