Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after day, the rhetoric grew shriller. TASS, the Soviet news agency, fired barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs...
takeovers of the Dassault-Breguet aircraft company, two steel producers and three companies partly owned by U.S. and West German interests...
...renovation project, which is expected to cost between $7 and $8 million, will involve replaceing the weakened steel beams and "acres and acres" of concrete seating areas and rebuilding the restrooms and vending areas, George Oommen, a project supervisor in the Developmental Planning Office, said yesterday...
...There are parts where it's so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles," John P. Reardon '60, director of Athletics, said Thursday. He also questioned the weakening stadium's ability to hold large crowds, saying it "was really packed last year for the Yale Game, and I was glad when it was over that everyone was safe...
...major deterioration in the stadium is in the steel beams that support the concrete grandstands. Over the years, rainwater, often mixed with salt and other substances, has seeped into the cracks between the slabs that make up the seating areas, and has severely corroded these beams and the concrete around them...