Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vaguely defined "working groups," each with a six-month mandate to discuss certain issues: economics, nuclear power, science and technology, space and "militaryindustrial relations." The economic issues are most important. Washington, for instance, objects to Brazil's subsidies of exports to the U.S., especially of shoes, orange juice, steel and airplanes. Instead, Brazil wants more direct American aid. In a deft but easy bit of diplomacy, Reagan invited Brazil to send a prospective astronaut to the U.S. for training and, eventually, to fly on a space shuttle mission. (The President is copying the Soviets, who have flown astronauts from...
...Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken concrete and seas of mud. Protests a resident: "It's a place for animals, not human beings...
...bulldozer rakes up a wood plank or a cluster of twisted steel supports, someone will claim it and try to build a hut around it. There are women of all ages. There are children everywhere, who chase one another through the ruins and occasionally, oblivious to the danger, scramble into the shovels of the moving UNRWA tractors. One sees few men. Some are dead; others have been detained by the Israelis, who still make sorties into the camp in search of Palestine Liberation Organization suspects. One of those imprisoned was Hodrasadi's son Ibrahim, 18, who had recently undergone...
...particularly from minority groups, are joining the work force with such poor educational backgrounds that they are ill prepared for most jobs. The unemployment rate among black teen-agers has reached 50.1%. Foreign competition has cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs in such declining industries as autos, steel and textiles. In the auto business alone, 255,000 employees, or 23% of the blue-collar work force, are on indefinite layoff. Company and union officials concede that most of these workers will not be recalled, even if the economy recovers. Says David Herlick of Woodhaven, Mich., a Ford worker...
...deals were engineered by Volvo's patrician chief executive, Pehr Gyllenhammar, 47. He belongs to Henry Kissinger's blue-chip international consulting group and wears a steel-banded watch on each wrist, one set for Goteborg time, the other for New York. Says he: "The diversification is not an escape from automobiles, but we believe that the industry is so strangled at the moment that it leaves no room for us to maneuver...