Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They do not seem to have changed many of the habits that once spurred reports of unhappy Egyptians, Ethiopians and Mozambicans. The Soviets can usually be found at the beach, in snorkeling gear and Baltic bathing costumes. The island's favorite Russian so far is a chauffeur with steel teeth. He has been nicknamed "Jaws," of course. The Soviets have given the people of Grenada a one-engine crop sprayer and imported two cream-colored Mercedes sedans for themselves. But they are a bit slow on the draw when it comes to parting with nickels on the beach. They...
...Richard Nixon's book The Real War, the former President says that Soviet military strategy is based on the theory that you "probe with bayonets. If you encounter steel, withdraw. If you encounter mush, continue." In light of this, I do not believe President Reagan is playing a frivolous video game. He is using shrewd military strategy. Richard Jensen Atlanta...
...older structures. If you eradicate that which relates to an urban center's past, such as its old buildings, you destroy its personality. A city like Rome is beautiful not for its efficiency or cleanliness but for its diversity. Spacious streets, blank walls and giant blocks of steel and concrete may make a pleasing design on paper, but in reality they create a desert of human expression. Marcello Pense Delray Beach...
...some other states are slowly climbing out of the grueling two-year recession, West Virginia seems to be sinking deeper. Many of the industries most debilitated by the nation's economic woes-coal, electric power, steel, primary metals and chemicals-form the basis for the state's economy. Unlike other industrial states such as Michigan and Ohio, West Virginia has made little effort to diversify and retool its economy by luring high-tech businesses. "Usually West Virginia begins to recover about six months after the nation," says Arnold Margolin, the state's chief economist. "But there...
...year ago, Constance Stepney's husband Roosevelt, 47, was making $85 a day as a dumper at one of U.S. Steel Corp.'s five local coal mines, confidently dubbed "the billion-dollar mine." But then U.S. Steel closed all the mines down. Now Roosevelt hangs around the house doing odd jobs and collects $188 a week in unemployment compensation to add to his wife's $112 weekly paycheck from her cashier's job. With a 13-year-old son, they are barely scraping along, fearful that the unemployment benefits may soon be exhausted. But Mrs. Stepney...