Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wall of the chapel in the Branch Davidian compound, where he took refuge with fellow believers. It was the middle of a lull between government tear-gas assaults, and in the calm, Thibodeau studied the thing. "It was the size of a Coke can," he says. "Silver, stainless steel in color. There were three fins on the back. It was some kind of projectile." Before he could look more closely, however, the screech of tanks started up again. Chaos ensued. Then fire. Thibodeau's tale of the wayward rocket is one of many now rekindling David Koresh's Waco--especially...
Zaitz's story is not unique. From farming to food to microprocessors; from solid-waste control to plastics to such traditional Rust Belt goods as steel, virtually every American industry is represented online by at least one entrepreneur who has set up shop to cement business-to-business commerce. Meanwhile, large corporations are using the Internet to build bridges between themselves and their strategic partners. Each member of the online biz-to-biz (B2B) brigade is hoping to use the Net's instantaneous global reach to build digital marketplaces where buyers and sellers who may never have...
...BOOK/AUTHOR] GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, Jared Diamond...
...families. When dawn broke, the fierce August sun burned down on hundreds of square miles of earthquake-ravaged cities and towns. The densely populated industrial heartland of the country lay in ruin, some 40,000 buildings smashed by nature's power into mountains of shattered concrete and sharp, mangled steel. Ghostly voices cried out from dark holes beneath the rubble, pleading for rescue...
Suburban living doesn't get much better than the Country Club of Louisiana, a steel-gated, pool-dappled subdivision on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. Houses cost from $300,000 to $3 million. There is a lovely golf and tennis club with a spacious veranda meant to re-create the look of a Louisiana plantation. But denizens were somewhat unnerved last year to learn that five of the leading gangsta rappers in the world had moved in: Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal and Snoop Dogg...