Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People of New York and San Francisco," droned a Radio Moscow announcer in a broadcast beamed across the United States the next day. "The Pittsburgh steel smelter, the California farmer...and the Harvard student, you may be drafted and sent to the front." No other American university was mentioned in the ominous warning which continued: "The flames of war may creep in from the Caribbean and engulf your home...
...That's basic to America, the opportunity to make choices." Inmate Marion Chaney does not make lame excuses. He has four more years to serve of his fifth Texas prison term. "If I am dumb enough to get in here again," he says from behind a wall of steel mesh, "boy, I'll tell you, I'll deserve...
...most heavily unionized industries, such as automobiles, steel, mining and railroads, have been in decline. While organized labor has been expanding into other sectors of the economy, including high-technology manufacturing and service industries, it has not been able to keep pace with the fast employment growth in these areas. Labor has also been slow in attracting the millions of women who are entering the work force, and it has lagged in signing up workers of all kinds in the growing Southwest and West. The AFL-CIO is coordinating a $1.2 million campaign of local unions in the Houston area...
...would be wonderful if the people of Weirton banded together and successfully purchased the faltering Weirton Steel Co. [Aug. 9]. Watching Weirton Steel rise from its own financial ashes would inspire other companies in similar predicaments. With much hard work, Weirton might pull...
...been a lowering of expectations," meaning that people no longer believe prices must rise faster and faster forever. Heller and others cite structural changes in the U.S. economy as another factor behind the high hopes for stable prices. These include: increased foreign competition in industries like autos and steel; deregulation, which has led to more price competition in airlines and trucking; and, of great importance, prospects for renewed growth in productivity, or output per man-hour...