Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They were in no hurry to kill him. At one point a youth--he could not have been 18--leaned over and quite deliberately stuck an ice pick between two ribs deep into Siahae's right lung. He pulled it out again and looked at the blood on the steel with satisfaction. Siahae was face down on the concrete now, heaving for breath, too battered to cry out, barely conscious. His back was scored with stab wounds. The youth was smiling...
...seeing a reverse tectonic shift. The digital revolution is starting to decentralize power and production, which permits more garage-based entrepreneurs and small businesses. It is also creating more tailored and personalized products, ranging from jeans and shoes shaped just for you to steel and widgets crafted for specific purposes. This is especially true in the information and entertainment industries: enterprising producers can make and distribute their own news, music, videos, recipe tips and political opinions; meanwhile, consumers can tap into (and sometimes even personally tailor) an exploding array of websites, information sources, entertainment options, cable channels and opinion outlets...
...cross between today's Federal Reserve Board and the Goldman Sachs' mergers-and-acquisitions department, providing the money and acumen needed to launch the prototypes of modern industrial corporations. Under Morgan's leadership, this century began much as the 19th century ended, with heavy industry--steel, rails, electricity, and oil--ascendant. Automobiles were in short supply until 1913, when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line and mass production, making ours a consumer as well as an industrial society. As the century progressed, the service economy began to compete with industry as fortunes were made in soft drinks (Coca-Cola), processed...
...rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed with steel. Fiercely competitive, obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced-air steel process to America. Such innovation permitted him to reduce the price of rails--the product that initially drove the industry--from...
...inside of the sculpture is made of knitted stainless steel and viewers are invited to stick their heads inside the piece to fully experience...