Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role by Community members in easing East-West tensions. Moreover, without concerted industrial cooperation, the ailing economies of the Ten will find it difficult to deal with the technological challenge from Japan and the U.S. Nor can Western Europe bargain confidently with the U.S. over festering trade problems in steel and farm products...
Other unions in such industries as automobiles, steel, rubber, mining and trucking are also taking a pounding. Their bargaining strength has been blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
Equally tough bargaining methods are being used in the steel industry, where extensive concessions by labor have still not led to company profits. Last week U.S. Steel told 10,000 workers in Chicago, Cleveland, Birmingham, Johnstown, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., that all or part of their plants would be shut down unless they granted concessions that go beyond those in the basic steel contract. The company wants reductions in health benefits, work-rule changes and more flexibility in the use of outside contractors...
Because the early hours in orbit are critical in judging human reaction to weightlessness, the scientist-astronauts got a fast start on their biomedical program. They took blood samples from one another (Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, as the chief bloodletter, became known as "the vampire"), underwent eye tests, lifted steel balls, were flung around in a sledlike contraption called a body-restraint system, and even endured electric shocks. Not surprisingly, the orbital guinea pigs complained that the tests were making them ill, although the torture had a medical purpose: to learn more about the nausea, headaches and general lethargy, known...
...Coldwell, Banker, a national real estate firm. When Sears was struggling to get out of its 1970s slump, a strategic planning committee looked at diversification. Recalls President Archie Boe, 62, who will retire next March: "We studied every industry in the U.S." After looking at areas as diverse as steel and automobiles, Sears decided to go into financial services...