Word: steel
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Aging bridges are particularly prevalent in Vermont, where a flood in 1927 swept away roughly half of the state's picturesque covered bridges. The steel spans that replaced them are past their expected life of 50 years, meaning that most are already in need of replacement. Meanwhile, loads across them are severely restricted. In the multiriver region of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1,129 of the 5,000 or so bridges require repairs that would cost more than $1 billion. When loads over the Thompson Run Bridge in suburban Duquesne were reduced to five tons in 1978, the United States Steel...
...antique structures was dramatized 18 months ago when a badly corroded cable broke loose from the 99-year-old Brooklyn Bridge and killed a Japanese freelance photographer. The city has provided only limited funds to replace the cables, which have merely been encircled with a band of steel so that when the next one pops, it will not mangle cars or pedestrians...
...floor to the bank's data-processing center. Dropping through, they approached their principal objective: the two doors leading to the bank's 186 safe deposit boxes in the basement of the building. The first iron-barred door was easy to breach; the second, a bulky steel safe door with multiple locks, had to be burned through. Police discovered tangerine peels on the floor by the gates, left there by the burglars, who snacked as they spent hours scorching their way into the vault with acetylene torches...
Just across the horizon, as usual, lurk the Japanese. During the 1970s, U.S. computer manufacturers complacently felt that they were somehow immune from the Japanese combination of engineering and salesmanship that kept gnawing at U.S. auto, steel and appliance industries. One reason was that the Japanese were developing their large domestic market. When they belatedly entered the U.S. battlefield, they concentrated not on selling whole systems but on particular sectors?with dramatic results. In low-speed printers using what is known as the dot-matrix method the Japanese had only a 6% share of the market...
...Coors. He walks like Charlie Chaplin in slow motion and, when excited, breathes like an asthmatic piglet. He wants nothing more in this world than a faithful pal, unless it is to return to his out-of-this-world home. Cynics will insist he is made of aluminum, E.T. steel, fiber glass, polyurethane and foam rubber, but this is a small matter. The larger truth is that E.T. emerged from a sweet communal dream: of fellowship, loyalty, ordinary heroism, unfettered fun. He is every child's secret best friend, every adult's reverie of the innocence that was, once upon...