Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intransigence is not supported by opposition figures in Britain. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, on a visit to the U.S., said, "At some point, they [Britain and Argentina] are going to have to reach an agreement about peace in the region and how the islands are governed." The pro-Labor Daily Mirror warned, "There will be other Prime Ministers after Mrs. Thatcher. They will not all share her enthusiasms nor have the same willingness to bear the expense." The price is indeed considerable. Recapturing the islands cost the government $1.1 billion, plus $1.4 billion in damage and loss of ships...
Like mausoleums of a passing age, they stand shuttered and empty. They are the padlocked steel mills of what has come to be known grimly as the American Rust Bowl, and from the rail sidings of East Chicago to the icy waterways of western New York State, they offer mute testimony to the industrial damage that has been done by the longest economic decline in half a century...
...capacity to live and work undersea; of heart disease; in Charlotte, N.C. Bond developed a process of saturating body tissues with a mix of helium and oxygen to withstand pressure. In the first two Sealab missions (1964-65), aquanauts spent nine days or more in a 57-ft.-long steel cylinder some 200 ft. below the ocean's surface. Observing from above, "Papa Topside" found that the men could function but became susceptible to the "breakaway phenomenon," suffering capricious fits of insubordination. The program ended after a fatality during a 1969 mission...
...Roosa. He contends that the U.S.'s public debt cannot be compared with that of a developing nation: the U.S. has an infinitely more powerful economy and a more stable political process. Others, echoing that view, note that banks can hardly send gunboats to seize Poland's steel plants, Mexico's oilfields or Indonesia's rice mills if debt repayments are halted. Says Britain's Lever: "I call [Wriston] the Peter Pan of bankers because he still believes in fairies...
...live in an enclosed steel box and be comfortable...