Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election day, steel-helmeted army troops, backed up by armored cars and helicopters, guarded polling places and patrolled the streets. Nonetheless, the gunfire echoed through the tough slums of Kingston all day long. The Kingston Public Hospital, located in the center of the trouble, took in a dozen casualties. One young man, who had allegedly tried to steal a ballot box, had nearly been decapitated by a machete. The casualty toll just for the ten-hour polling period: three killed and 20 wounded...
...people, Gershuni first made an incision in the elephant's tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12-in.-long steel pin; this served as an anchor for the heavy hoof-to-knee cast. Three and a half hours later Mandavu was brought back to consciousness. Within GARRISON minutes she lumbered to her feet, apparently no worse for the experience...
Detroit leads a parade of low earnings reports ad tidings poured forth from many of the largest U.S. corporations last week. Reports on their business between July and September were distressingly poor. The stale economic climate choked off profits in most sectors of the economy, from steel and chemicals to mining and building supplies. Data Resources, Inc., a Lexington, Mass., economic forecasting firm, projected that corporate profits had fallen 5.8% from the same period a year...
...poor third-quarter company reports were centered primarily in some of America's oldest industries. Data Resources estimated that steel companies' earnings fell 96%. U.S. Steel profits were down 12.7%, and the company would have lost money except for the sale of $77.8 million worth of its cement division and some real estate. Bethlehem Steel lost $32.3 million in the third quarter, as contrasted with a $74.8 million profit during the same period a year ago. Chemical giant Du Pont reported an earnings decline of 61%. Since the housing industry had been especially hard hit by high interest...
...Steel still holds the dubious record for the worst ever. Its loss for the fourth quarter of 1979 was $668.9 million...