Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed that the venerable stadium--the oldest reinforced concrete structure of its kind--was falling apart. "There are parts where it's so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles," Reardon had said...
...Reardon and several University planners launched a project last fall to repair the disintegrating structure. The University allocated $7 million for a complete renovation. Steel support beams were to be replaced. Acres of concrete slabs were to replace the weather-worn grandstands. A new press box was to be built...
...known as Dneprodzerzhinsk). His father may have taken part in strikes that accompanied the 1905 revolution against Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Brezhnev was ten years old at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. He attended a grammar school that was subsidized by his father's steel plant, worked for a time as a manual laborer and in 1923 joined the Komsomol, the Communist youth organization. After vocational school, one of his first jobs was to help supervise the distribution of land in the Urals that had been seized from peasants as part of Stalin's brutal...
...billion debt to the West is minuscule in a $1.5 trillion economy, and the Russian people throughout history have shown a great ability to live with adversity. Moreover, economic problems have not diminished the Soviets' military power. The armed forces get first call on food, clothing, steel, oil, machinery and technology. But the priority given to the military has left the civilian economy sputtering...
...economy now churns out one-fifth of the world's industrial production, including more steel and oil than any other country. But its per capita output of goods and services ranks below Italy's and is only half that of the U.S. The Soviet Union's reliance on exports of raw materials and imports of machinery, technology and finished products makes it appear more like a Third World nation than an industrial giant. Weaponry, including tanks, fighter planes and assault rifles, is almost the only manufactured product that is of high enough quality to be sold...