Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the week, the site of those sacrifices was slowly, even tenderly, pulled apart in the search for bodies. As bulldozers grumbled back and forth, cranes hoisted away slabs of concrete, their steel rods bent crazily and stuck with bits of uniforms. The Marines were aided in their grim task not only by Navy Seabees from ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast, but by Italian, Norwegian and Lebanese rescuers, most of them volunteers. The searchers clambered over the ruins with picks and shovels, but just as often they would fall to their knees and scoop...
...some 15,000 violations of its quality-assurance regulations. A year later, the commission halted construction because of Cincinnati Gas' continued failure to meet its quality guidelines, the first time that the NRC had ever taken such a step when construction was so far advanced. Some of the steel used at Zimmer was scrap that was arbitrarily upgraded on the site. About 70% of the welds on the plant's structural beams did not meet industry standards. To test the welds now, inspectors will in some cases have to cut out at random one made by each...
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