Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Congress has just recently woken up to the danger of the oil takeovers--not to mention similar horror stories in the steel and railroad industries--nobody has done anything to stop them. The 1961 Reagan tax cuts for corporations gave them the fuel for their orgiastic frenzy of violent buyouts: the impotence of his attorney general in stopping them has acted as encouragement...
...threat of Government antitrust action did end one proposed merger last week. U.S. Steel called off plans to link its steel operations with those of National Steel because of probable opposition from the Justice Department...
...Changes, Steel...
Said Liberal Leader David Steel: "I don't think Thatcher is exactly in tears that Benn is going to be around messing things up for the Labor Party for the next four years...
...mainland. In Aksyonov's fancy, Crimea is the hog heaven of the conspicuous consumer. Dom Perignon flows like vodka in the luxury cafés and restaurants. Ferraris and Cadillacs jam the freevays on veekends. (In the original, Aksyonov used the English words transliterated into Russian.) Glass-and-steel houses cling to the island's sheer rock cliffs, in defiance of frequent earthquakes. In short, Crimea resembles nothing so much as Southern California, where, as it happens, Aksyonov spent two months in 1975 as a visiting professor...