Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole in a wall at the U.S. Capitol. Among the steps taken for presidential security: guard dogs were assigned to sniff all cars and trucks for explosives as they pass through the 8½-ft. steel gates. The sand-filled trucks are only temporary. The Secret Service is studying the possibility of installing fortified gates that will serve as a more permanent, and more decorative, defense against potential car bombs...
...crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo of steel plate from Japan sank quickly...
...sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title of the world's tallest building, a mood as merry as Christmas exists. Not only is Sears' bold expansion into financial services and real estate paying handsome dividends, the firm's merchandise group, which once seemed...
Israeli-supplied conventional arms sales and licensing agreements with South Africa include the following: Reshef-class gunboats armed with Gabriel missiles; Dabur coastal portal boats; hardened steel for South Africa's armored corps; self-propelled 105 mm howitzers; air-to-air rockets; anti-tank missiles; assault rifles; radar bases; and surveillance equipment...45 percent of Israeli arms exports between 1970 and 1979 were naval ships. South Africa purchased 35 percent of the ships exported...
...benefits of high residential concentration and to reduce urban sprawl and the cost of commuting. But they also want single-family houses with architectural diversity and some private greenery around them. Wines would take these separate homes, yards and all, and stick them into eight-to ten-story-high steel-and-concrete frameworks to create "plots...