Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cliche of '80s politics: "Ronald Reagan is cited as the inevitable product of the television age. But Reagan, one surmises, would have been equally successful in the age of radio, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, or in the age of newsreels, like Warren G. Harding, or in the age of steel engravings and the penny press, like Franklin Pierce. Presidential candidates in the television era -- Johnson, Nixon, Humphrey, McGovern, Ford, Carter, Mondale -- hardly constitute a parade of bathing beauties calculated to excite Atlantic City...
...pathological aversion to debt. The constitution outlaws acceptance of foreign credits, thus making Albania's outside trade dependent on barter deals or the cash sale of its exports, which include chromium, oil and agricultural products. The economy is also crippled by a disintegrating industrial base. Chinese- and Soviet-built steel mills, power plants and tractor factories, between eight and 25 years old, are falling apart...
Hong Kong, which earlier this year banned imports of South Africa's gold Krugerrand coins, extended the sanctions to iron and steel. Imports of South African coal and diamonds, however, will still be allowed. Hong Kong also asked firms in the British crown colony to halt voluntarily new investments and loans to South Africa. Said Piers Jacobs, financial secretary of Hong Kong: "The measures would bring Hong Kong in line with those governments that are our principal trading partners...
...they are and so they will be, touring 60 cities in four months with an international ensemble of young skaters. Combining the invention of the Broadway musical, the grace of ballet and the speed of steel sliding across a smooth surface, they are zestfully -- and often wittily -- redefining that tired old branch of show business, the ice revue...
...owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter how dispiriting. And when the unionists cry out for protection from foreign trade to save their jobs, they run smack into the ire of those very same farmers, who know that tariffs on shoes or steel may mean further market losses for soybeans and wheat...