Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest megalopolis, where the country's worst earthquake in decades had wreaked its most severe devastation, the stench of death hung over piles of rubble. Squads of masked and helmeted rescue workers scrambled desperately, looking for--and sometimes finding --sparks of life in a jumble of concrete and steel debris. There were moments of celebration as the squads retrieved a succession of newborn infants after days of burial. There were also 50 seconds of panic late in the week as a moderate aftershock caused buildings to sway but left little additional damage...
...city officials now estimate that about 2,500 buildings were destroyed or badly damaged in the original quake and a heavy (7.5 on the Richter scale) second temblor 36 hours later. Many of the buildings that came crashing down were constructed of brick or concrete rather than structural steel. That led to charges by several local critics last week that corrupt building practices had been a major factor in the calamity. The government promised an investigation...
...charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge of the Foreign Ministry with the assertiveness that has been...
Even if American corporations become more aggressive and outward looking, certain industries will shrink and perhaps die as the world economy changes. Particularly vulnerable will be American companies manufacturing such products as basic steel, textiles and chemicals. Those require unsophisticated technology, and countries where labor costs are low can make them more cheaply. It now seems clear that the American economy overall will be stronger if corporations concentrate on products that maximize America's strength in high technology...
...laid. When the ships' designer saw the haphazard way in which they were being constructed, he complained to Polish authorities and resigned after his plea was ignored. Judge Andrzej Przybielski accused the Register of Shipping of "glaring negligence" in allowing the vessel to be built with faulty and substandard steel. He also cited an inoperative emergency radio, faulty signal flares and the crew's lack of familiarity with other safety equipment. But Przybielski did not call for the criminal prosecution of those responsible. That prompted angry relatives of the dead seamen to appeal to Poland's Maritime Supreme Court...