Word: steeled
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...secret is that it is an architectural feat. Upon completion in 1970, Pusey was one of America’s few underground libraries. In order to build the library underground, anchored in the surrounding bedrock, the building had to be attached to the bedrock with a series of steel beams. Without these beams, the library would literally rise up from its underground location.THE BARKER CENTERCompleted in 1997, the Barker Center exists on the lot of land that formerly held several notable buildings: the Student Union, Burr Hall, and Warren House. Until the 1990s, freshman ate in the Student Union. When...
...Chinalco, a huge consumer of iron ore, the deal provides potential pricing power over Rio, one of the world's three largest ore producers. Every year, steel and aluminum producers worldwide negotiate with miners over new contracts. For the past few years the mining companies have driven up prices relentlessly. Shan Shanghua, executive secretary of China's Iron and Steel Association, recently hinted that Chinese buyers will have some additional clout at the bargaining table...
...second front, Congress, is, if anything, harder. During an appearance on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pushed him to declare their pet programs safe. Senator James Inhofe pressed Gates to protect the FCS program, whose high-tech cannon is built in Oklahoma, Inhofe's home state. "We have a nation where steel mills are shutting down," said Representative Gene Taylor, whose Mississippi district builds ships and who chairs the House Seapower Subcommittee and co-chairs the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus. "I would ask you to encourage your acquisition folks to take advantage of these low prices." Shutting down the F-22 line means...
While Harvard waits for news of the endowment’s performance, the University must prepare various contingency plans to steel itself for an uncertain fiscal future, Faust said...
American cars have $750 worth of steel in them, and they have $1,600 worth of health care. And if you look, all of our competitors have national health insurance. If we had that $1,600 go to the American manufacturers, you'd see us having the flushest automobile manufacturers in the world...