Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caught in an Israeli naval bombardment. An exploding shell wounded him severely in the leg. In shock from the loss of blood, he was taken to a Palestinian hospital, then transferred to the American University Hospital in Beirut, where his leg was surgically pieced together and encased in a steel skeleton cast. At week's end doctors were hopeful of a full recovery...
...sufficient nibbling and chipping at the state and local levels to mitigate the hoped-for economic stimulus from the tax cut. This is especially true in the industrial states of the Midwest, where local governments are particularly hard pressed for revenue. Their once sturdy tax bases, proudly rooted in steel, autos, coal and muscle, have been eroded by the migration of people and companies to the Sunbelt, and by competition from more cost-efficient manufacturing operations in Japan and Europe. Most of them are simply running out of new sources of revenue and have to keep putting higher and higher...
Rocky III is a kind of report to the fans on Stallone's recent life. The film's dramatic motor is the struggle from the softness of success back to the mental toughness of a champ. If Stallone is a man of steel, he is scarcely a man of irony, and he handles Rocky III as he has handled all of his writing and directing efforts, with heart-in-the-right-place primitivism. That is not necessarily a defect in movies that depend for effectiveness on walloping blows to the audience's emotional solar plexus. Stallone...
...government waste, incompetent planning and incoherent design. China was once Joseph Stalin's most pupil, and though it broke with more than a decade ago, the legacy of Soviet "intensive industrialization" Butterfield cites the all-too-typical $13.3 billion mill designed to manufacture 3 million tons of steel a year. When the Chinese turned on the switch, they found the plant demanded more electric than the entire surrounding could produce...
...concerns of his own. He has engaged in financial activities that, while not illegal, seem less than appropriate for the nation's chief law enforcement officer. Shortly before assuming his Cabinet post, Smith accepted a $50,000 "severance" payment from Earle M. Jorgensen Co., a Los Angeles-based steel and aluminum distributor. This seems out of proportion to his duties as a director paid $500 for each board meeting he attended. The severance award was made after Reagan announced that Smith was his choice for Attorney General...