Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dense Pack plan calls for the missiles to be implanted along a strip 14 miles long and 1½ miles wide. Their concrete-and-steel silos would be hardened to a degree never before attained by engineers. The 100 holes would be spaced 1,800 ft. apart-a distance computed by Pentagon scientists as too great to permit a single Soviet warhead from knocking out more than one MX, but close enough so that the blasts from the first enemy warheads would disable those coming in behind. This Fratricide theory is untested and much debated among nuclear physicists...
Despite its pious homilies on the dangers of protectionism, the U.S. is one of the offenders. The Reagan Administration has forced Japan to accept a "voluntary" three-year quota on car exports and has limited steel imports from Western Europe. Some members of Congress, encouraged by organized labor, hope to go even further. A bill requiring a large percentage of American-made parts in imported cars has 220 co-sponsors in the House and the endorsement of Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and John Glenn...
...nearly 10% in the first year of a new multiyear contract. The deal would have required the U.S.W., in effect, to tear up its existing two-year-old contract, which does not formally expire until next August, and sign a new 45-month contract under which the steel companies would set up generous profit-sharing plans for U.S.W. members...
...foundering industry, the rejection could not have come at a worse time. Steel executives have been counting desperately on an economic recovery beginning next spring to help boost steel shipments and cut the industry's hemorrhaging losses. But even if demand for steel does improve, the companies could wind up losing if they have to negotiate a new contract with the U.S.W. as sales and profits are starting to recover. For both labor and management, the ultimate disaster would, of course, be a strike. It would open the door to a surge in foreign imports, bringing yet more anguish...
...home, and even a scrap of a place can mobilize that homey feeling. The old standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel-they're making me feel I'm home." Plausible? In London, Thornton Wilder once provoked astonishment by referring to his temporary accommodations as home. How use the hallowed word to refer to a hotel room? Explained Wilder: "A home is not an edifice, but an interior and transportable adjustment...