Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duncan Steel, an Australian astronomer, has calculated that if the asteroid had struck Earth, it would have hit at some 58,000 m.p.h. The resulting explosion, scientists estimate, would have been in the 3,000-to-12,000-megaton range. That, says astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer asteroid and comet hunter, "is like taking all of the U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons, putting them in one pile and blowing them...
...night bar band. Maybe you don't dare face "the moral of this story," which is "to look at what you've been through/ And see what you've become." Not to sweat; just follow the Gospel According to Lyle: "Boy, pick up that fiddle,/ Ooh and play that steel guitar,/ Ooh and find your- self a lady,/ Ooh and dance right where you are." This buoyant song allows you to do nothing else. It proves there's no misery, public or private, so deep that good music can't lift you out of it. Lovett's album plunges...
...company--as well as employees, suppliers, customers and local communities. But in the '80s some of these stakes were crushed in the machinery of mergers or restructuring. Cities lost powerful corporate allies, that were relegated to subsidiary status by headquarters in distant places. In industries such as textiles and steel, plant shutdowns destroyed forever the notion that the company takes care of its own. Steel towns in Pennsylvania, like Duquesne, collapsed when their blast furnaces went cold. Those were thought to be singular events, industrial catastrophes that wouldn't be repeated. But in the harsh global economy, layoffs will...
...Washington Post and ABC to dissect the political preference of UFO spotters in the first place. I assume that Perot has claimed that it was simply to embarrass him, a subtler version of polling people on the question "Which candidate can you most easily imagine rolling little steel balls around in his hand...
...horseshoe-type, steel alloy key lock on your bicycle. Lock it to something stationary and solid enough to resist bolt cutters, such as a sign post, iron fence or bike rack...