Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the next century, as some scientists have predicted? One option would be to construct levees and dikes. The Netherlands, after all, has flourished more than 12 ft. below sea level for hundreds of years. Its newest bulwark is a 5.6-mile dam made up of 131-ft. steel locks that remain open during normal conditions, to preserve the tidal flow that feeds the rich local sea life, but can be closed when rough weather threatens. Venice is beginning to put into place a 1.2-mile flexible seawall that would protect its treasured landmarks against Adriatic storms without doing ecological...
...systematic garbage collection. The Machida plant can deal with almost any category of recyclable refuse: burnables, nonburnables, bottles, cans, durables such as furniture and refrigerators, and "harmfuls" like batteries. Depending on their category, the castoffs are filtered, burned, crushed or otherwise treated on their way to becoming reusable materials. Steel scrap is separated from other garbage by huge magnets. Much of the recycling is computer-controlled: only 45 people work in shifts to run the round-the-clock operation...
...passing Ilyushin 76 cargo plane had somehow clipped the tail of a parked Air Europe Boeing 757. Both aircraft were stuck in place. I tried to explain to an ever changing group of airport workers that the British pilot needed a small tow truck and strong steel cables to move his plane forward...
...bring it alive. People sit here and talk nonsense to one another, order tea -- a liquor license is still to come -- wait for somebody to tilt a chair back, argue about what Starck did right and wrong. (Right: a bar, made of dark marble, with a lovely, sinuous stainless-steel footrest, and a thin strip of glowing blue glass set into the top. Wrong: tacky purple ropes with tassels, holding up enormous mirrors...
...trip to the men's room is Niagaral; the urinal is a huge stainless-steel waterfall (no compensating astonishment for women). A newcomer can be sent to find a tiny round bar that might seat ten people, hidden near the entrance. Finding it is not easy, to the satisfaction of Rubell and Schrager. They insisted that their builder hide the door. "Discreet is in," says Rubell, 46. "If you don't know where it is," observes Schrager, 42, "you wouldn't be comfortable there. Our guests will be a certain sort of people who will feel right here." The Royalton...