Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City is afraid that the spreading mess of Guinness will force the Conservatives to clamp down on the number of mergers, which has gone up 160% in the past three years. Snaps Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "This endless shuffling about of assets has done nothing to improve the basic efficiency and capacity of British manufacturing." Already, takeover fever has abated. "There are no megabids running at all," says Kenneth Morton, an executive director with the Hill Samuel Group. "There's no doubt that people's attitudes have changed." Last month BTR, one of Britain's most aggressive raiders, backed...
...help clean up acid rain. Though he managed last spring to get American agreement to discuss a free-trade treaty between the two countries, many Canadians feel that both he and his government have been too quick to knuckle under to the U.S. on matters such as lumber and steel exports. In short, they question whether Reagan, who will meet the Prime Minister in Ottawa in April, takes Mulroney seriously...
...Kazakhs!" and attacked non-Kazakhs on the streets. "It was a manifestation of nationalism -- we are not trying to get around that," he said. But he insisted many demonstrators were motivated by resentment resulting from Kunaev's frequent assertions that Kazakhstan was the bountiful provider of meat, bread and steel for the rest of the country, with the implication that it was getting too little in return...
...what the hell are you doing here?" I asked, a hospitable gleam lighting up my cherubic face. The Dinosaur whirled, chains clanking softly against his leathery torso. A black leather coat--imbedded with steel plates and crusted with spikes--made up his armor; a gelled crest of blonde mohawk arced across his skull, calling to mind some genetically mutated stegosaurus. The Dinosaur...
...Catamount, whose production this month will begin with only about 2,500 cases for its market area of New Hampshire and Vermont. But a yeast tank from a dismantled Stroh brewery in Detroit became a brew kettle. A high-tech Italian wine filter turned out to be ideal. Stainless-steel conditioning tanks were built to order. By September the partners were ready to begin ten weeks of practice | brewing. Mason says there were few surprises. At one point, a daily check of the yeast culture by Consulting Biologist Mike Sinclair showed that wild yeast had corrupted the strain, and Mason...