Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town of immigrants and their offspring-Poles, Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavs-whose sense of ethnic and familial snugness is reinforced by friendships forged on the steel-mill floors. This closeness was depicted in the movie The Deer Hunter, whose home-town scenes were filmed in Weirton. "You just know everybody," says Fran Crow, 27, a third-grade teacher. Her husband John, 28, has been furloughed from his job as a Weirton Steel salesman, one of 2,600 who received a pink slip in the past two years. "At first I was thrilled," he says. "I thought I'd play...
Shimko should talk to Dick Heilman, 52, who went to work at Weirton Steel in 1948. Heilman would hate to forgo any of the perks, among them free dental care and double pay for overtime, let alone lose 32% of his $29,000 pipefitter's salary. But, he says, "it's different when you're working for yourself. The minute it was announced that we were going to buy the plant, I noticed people in my section working longer and taking shorter breaks. There's a lot we can do without...
...works, of course, Weirton Steel will have made a startling transformation, from one capitalist's prosperous fief to the principal U.S. enclave of-yes-a kind of homespun socialism. But Weirtonians think more in terms of preserving a place where rich, hard-working lives have been uncommonly possible. If there really is a way for every will, willful Weirton may just have a chance to live happily ever after. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Weirton
Finally, the perfect knock-'em-dead gift for the man or woman who has everything: something to protect everything with. Not your ordinary cold steel snub nose, mind you. That would never do for kings, sultans and other mega-consumers. At Bijan's exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, where the clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan...
Traditionally, the industrial strength of a nation has been measured by its ability to make things big: the immense blast furnaces of its steel mills, the vast concrete expanses of its dams and the monumental skyscrapers towering over its cities. In the future, industrial might will flow increasingly from the power to make things small: the microscopic electrical circuits that form the core of computers, calculators, missile control panels, televisions, video games and all other electronic products. Called semiconductors, these circuits are most commonly etched in invisibly intricate detail on thin silicon chips as small as a baby...