Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waving aside the flies that fill the air in enormous clouds, Sister Emmanuelle spends hours visiting her flock, carrying a ledger in which she has meticulously written down the names and needs of 3,000 families. But her gentleness turns to steel when she browbeats bureaucrats or bankers to help the garbage pickers. She envisions motorized vehicles to replace the dilapidated donkey carts. She wants to replace pickers' filthy garments with clean uniforms and to pen the pigs instead of allowing them to roam in and out of homes. Says she: "It will cost money...
...banks across the country because it borrowed to stay afloat as sales plummeted, teetered throughout the year on the brink of outright collapse, surviving on credits from reluctant bankers and suppliers. Hardest hit of all in the downturn were the nation's producers of basic metals such as steel and copper. As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of Rust Bowl. By December, the nation...
...desperate search for support and assistance, businessmen in such smokestack industries as automaking and steel turned to Washington, demanding curbs on imports of foreign-made goods to preserve American markets for American companies. Though the Reagan Administration remained publicly committed to free trade, as the year dragged on, protectionism began to creep slowly into the U.S.'s dealings with other nations on trade matters...
Acting on complaints from American steelmakers, the Commerce Department issued a preliminary ruling in June holding that foreign steel manufacturers, mostly in Western Europe but including Brazil and South Africa, had been winning American customers by unfairly selling government-subsidized steel on the U.S. market. The ruling could have effectively blocked many of the offending companies from the U.S. altogether. In October the Administration, using the controversial ruling as a lever, won concessions from the foreign governments of the producers involved. In the agreement, the overseas governments promised that they would limit their sales in the U.S. to less than...
...concoct mock-academic theories about Casablanca. One can lay the sweet thing down on a stainless-steel lab table and dissect it with instruments Freudian or anthropological. A doctoral thesis might be written on the astonishing consumption of alcohol and cigarettes in the movie. At that rate, everyone would have died of cirrhosis and lung cancer...