Word: steeled
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...India's Kumar claims ship-breakers along Alang's 10-km stretch of muddy beach "violate all environmental and labor laws." Explosions are common as oil residues often remain in the vessels, and workers are ill-equipped, without proper tools or protective clothing. But with an insatiable demand for steel in Asia's booming economies, scrap prices have soared. Scrap now sells as high as $400 a ton in India, compared to roughly $150 a ton in Europe. "In Denmark you almost have to pay to get rid of a ship; in India they have a meaningful value," says Melchiors...
Locals in Trinidad and Tobago call it "the big lime" - Caribbean slang for a serious shindig. But the national semifinals of Panorama, an annual music festival that this year takes place on Feb. 12, serve up something headier than fruit juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens...
...issue. “To say that the President has inherent authority does not mean that his authority is exclusive, or that his conduct is not subject to statutory regulations,” the professors wrote, citing the Supreme Court invalidation of President Truman’s seizure of steel mills as an example. The professors also asserted that domestic spying “raises serious questions” under the Fourth Amendment, concluding that FISA “merely imposes reasonable regulation to protect legitimate privacy rights,” and that the president is required to follow...
...prompts him to castigate King Charles the Second (John Malkovich, sporting a prosthetic nose) with a scathing play that implies that he (the king) is a dildo. This all leads, of course, to eventual ruin, loss of bladder control and hideous sores, (and then, predictably, weird masks and a steel nose to cover the sores). Midway through the movie, I was confused as to why I should care about any of this. The characters talk constantly, mostly in quasi-literary soliloquies that make no sense, but that are said in a forceful way as if to pretend they actually...
...Somoza Jimenez: This Spanish architect proposes a cluster of steel-monuments inspired by the towering rock formations along Thailand's southern coast. The towers, whose tapering, segmented shapes recall pagodas or temples, would house a museum and other functional spaces...