Word: steel
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Some Colorado residents have similar tales to tell. Developers flocked to build skyscrapers in Denver as the U.S. turned to the resource-rich Rocky Mountain region for relief from OPEC price gouging. Now much of that steel-and-glass space stands empty. The downtown vacancy rate, less than 1% when the energy boom peaked in 1981, has risen to 13%; the city wide rate is 20%. One landlord had offered real estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada...
...fashion. Carter Reardon as Cassius, the driving force behind the conspiracy to kill Caesar, looks properly "lean and hungry." More than in many productions of Shakespeare, thought is given to differentiating the subordinate female characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost...
...face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives, tens and 20s. No talkin' or we'll bust your honky heads." Finally the Captain is at the head of the line facing a battered red steel door. He puts $150 on a piece of cardboard protruding from under the door. It disappears. "What...
...seen the neonatal intensive-care units, big, immaculate rooms with stainless-steel-and-glass machines called Ohio beds, which cradled the premature infants. They were miniature people whose arms bristled with a series of tubes and needles going to a bank of computer screens and monitors. In a few cases, the infants thrive in that controlled, constricted environment, designed to give them the best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view...
Indeed, slowing demand for electricity all over the country has become the biggest deterrent to nuclear power, even more so than burdensome regulation and community fears about safety. Buoyant assumptions about industrial growth, in vogue when most nuclear plants were conceived, have not held up. Smokestack industries-autos, steel, chemicals-that were expected to consume more and more electricity from the atom are waning in importance in the American economy as imports grab bigger shares of U.S. markets. Demand for electricity by what was supposed to be an ever more affluent, wasteful society has fallen off sharply. U.S. consumption...