Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hand-carried, cheap (average cost: $150) antitank rockets, which are now standard equipment for every infantry squad in the Warsaw Pact armies, rip through the Bradley's aluminum armor like a welder's torch. Unlike steel, the aluminum vaporizes and burns, adding immense heat to the explosion inside and producing a fireball. That is not a theoretical danger. The M113 also is made of aluminum, and M113s carrying Israeli troops went up in flames in Lebanon. During the invasion, Israeli troops rode on the exposed areas of the M113-not inside it. Since the Bradley is designed...
Extraordinary preparations are already under way for the historic visit. Guatemala's government is erecting a two-story steel cross that will remain permanently at the site of a papal rally in the Campo de Marte stadium. Hundreds of people plan to stay up the night before his arrival laying a multicolored carpet of sawdust and pine needles, a tradition during Holy Week, that will cover the six-mile path of the Pope's motorcade. Street vendors in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa are hawking posters, bumper stickers, buttons and records of a jingle that has become...
...reach. In "A Room Forever," a man who works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms and pool halls and in the company of prostitutes and winos. He knows that his job. "to watch barge rats and walk the wet steel edges," is dangerous, and the casualties of river accidents haunt him. But he resigns himself to an existence like the other river workers, who "are on for a month, off for a month and if they are lucky...can live that way for the rest of their days...
...shell, to be hung on eight giant vertical masts, will be of steel and aluminum, with translucent panels that will give the structure a traditional Japanese air. The exterior alone could cost $200 million. There was a cost overrun on an $87 million contract with British Steel for girders strong enough to support a rooftop landing pad for a helicopter. Foundation construction has begun, and some $460 million in contracts have already been let. But steel has yet to rise to a point where it can be seen above the fenced-off building site on landfill in Hong Kong harbor...
Worse, it will damage other industries. When one industry gains protection from foreign competition, other industries have to pay increased prices for the products of the protected industry, which in turn damages the competitiveness of the consuming industries. The car companies, for example, have to buy more expensive steel because of trade barriers which product the steel industry...