Word: steel
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Poll results showed that popular Liberal Leader David Steel would add about nine percentage points to Alliance support if he were the coalition's head instead of the soft-edged, florid Roy Jenkins, the Social Democratic Party's leader. So Alliance politicians decided to put Steel in the forefront for the remainder of the campaign. Steel, 45, was rated by MORI as the candidate who has most impressed British voters during the campaign. Even so, the Alliance will probably not displace Labor as the official opposition, because Britain's electoral system favors the two established parties...
...decline by as much as 5%. During the first three months of the year, as the government's austerity program took hold, industrial production was off 11%. Mexico's auto industry, the country's largest non-oil enterprise, suffered a 50% drop in sales. Iron and steel production cooled by 11.5%. The output of radios and other appliances dropped 20%. Even beer consumption was off 20%. The number of jobs in the economy shrank by about 8%, adding perhaps as many as 1.6 million more people to the 10 million already out of work or underemployed...
...squeeze may serve as a warning for countries who once sought quick riches from their natural resources only to find themselves stymied when commodity prices fell. Counting on a permanent high price for oil, Mexico had borrowed heavily from banks in the U.S. and elsewhere to finance drilling, steel production, roads, hospitals and increased automobile manufacturing. Bankers in New York, Tokyo and London dispensed the money after only cursory precautions because the loans were paying lucratively high interest rates of as much as 17%. Moreover, it all seemed so safe. Mexico's oil exports were rising from a paltry...
...Superman has triumphed over nearly every species of injustice. The villains of Metropolis bang their clenched fists against his chest and go away whimpering. Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to bend his will to theirs and end up with splitting headaches. But now, perhaps, the Man of Steel has finally met his match: his own rotten self. See Good battle Evil in a schizophrenic clash that makes for the most entertaining and affecting Superman...
...Harvard Square project poses a weight problem. With only 20-ton steel beams holding up the ceiling of the subway station beneath it. Omphalos cannot exceed 35 tons. By working back and forth from a half-size model to a hand-held quarter-size one. Hadzi hopes to accommodate the restriction. Eventually he will build a full-size model, perhaps in the Carpenter Center basement. Clearly, a concern for public safety puts constraints on Hadzi's work. But it was reassuring in the late 60s when war protestors climbed to the top of Thermopylae outside Boston City Hall...