Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuff, resembling rock-candy granules, has a melting point half that of plain cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap...
...system. The empty buildings are warrens filled with dealing and supply points, escape routes and booby traps for police. Apartments are fortified: door ways are bricked up with cinder blocks, leaving only a small opening for the passing of drugs and money, or blocked by bunkers of diamond-plate steel. Some dealers sell by lowering buckets from apartment landings; the stairs leading to the landings have been removed. The big-time dealers organize "clubs" that change locations every few hours and employ as many as 40 people as lookouts, runners and baggers. There are even bouncers who check the needle...
...responsibility system has spread to nearly every sector of society, including industry, culture and the arts, public health and the military. Peking's Capital Iron and Steel Complex now gives bonuses to its 70,000 workers when they meet specific requirements. By 1985, according to the government, 72,000 hotels, restaurants, bathhouses and barbershops will switch to the new system. The businesses will pay taxes to the government. Anything earned above the taxes will be shared among employees or reinvested...
National's stock has climbed almost $10, to $23, since the buyout began to look promising last year. Most security analysts view the deal as favorable for National, the fourth largest steel producer in the U.S. Closing Weirton would have saddled the company with $180 million in pension costs, according to one study. About one-third of the workers started with the company at least 30 years ago, which makes them eligible for full retirement benefits. They have chosen to stay on the job anyway. To induce them to vote for the plan, National will assume all pension costs...
...jobs being created in the U.S. hold little appeal for former assembly-line workers. According to the Government, the U.S. added 1.6 million restaurant and tavern jobs between 1973 and 1980, more than the current total in the steel (327,000) and auto (666,000) industries. During the 1980s, more new secretaries (700,000), nurse's aides and orderlies (508,000), janitors (501,000) and salesclerks (479,000) are expected to be hired than workers in any other job categories...