Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occidental Petroleum is currently groaning under the burden of Cities Service, for which it shelled out $4 billion last year. Oxy's long-term debt has now jumped from $1 billion to $5 billion, while its earnings have dropped from $722 million to $221 million. Similarly, U.S. Steel fought off Mobil to rescue Marathon Oil and is now struggling with the $6.7 billion price of its chivalry. Its steel business is down sharply, and while Marathon's earnings were at a record high last year, they are currently threatened by the downturn in oil prices. To help compensate...
Harvard's most precious historical documents are secured two floors underground behind a steel door with a combination lock. There, they are regularly inspected by Harley P. Holden, the archives' curator. "I like to check these every few days," Holden says, as he opens up the large red folder that contains Harvard's original charter, drafted in 1650 but now stained and nearly illegible...
...differences, however, do not extend very far into the looks of the facilities. The 180-bed hospital has only private rooms, but other than that it is stainless steel, gurneys, casters clacking on tile-a hospital. The cafeteria in the basement has tables galore but very few chairs because here, as elsewhere where people are ill, they come to dinner already seated...
Conducted in a fortress-like Rome gymnasium guarded by several hundred police and carabinieri, the trial lasted nearly nine months and involved testimony from 298 witnesses. Throughout the proceedings, the defendants, 18 of whom were women, were penned in six steel cages, while those who had become informants were protected by bulletproof glass. As one of the cooperative terrorists walked to his seat last week, a defendant yelled, "You would sell your own mother...
...ideals" and failed, does a disservice to the complex man he seeks to analyze. Caro insists that Johnson's conversion of a secret college social club into a political power on the Southwest texas campus revealed in the man a deviousness, a just for secrecy, and "a will of steel" plotting to "not only snatch existing power, but create . . . new power, of dimensions no students had ever had on campus before...