Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faltering; the adversaries are more threatening and the have-nots more demanding. Military power and its illicit offspring, terrorism, threaten to break all restraints. Firm decisions elude American strategists on nuclear security. Recession continues and worries deepen over the impact of budget and tax cuts. Decline in the auto, steel and building industries spills over to small business, farming and credit...
...Poles killed in the food riots of 1970. Last week, shortly after the army and police had broken a strike by shipworkers protesting martial law and the arrest of hundreds of Solidarity's leaders, the gate was closed again. In the shadow of the three soaring steel pillars of the new monument now stood an armored personnel carrier, a symbol of the million bayonets that seem forever poised against a surging nationalism. Jaruzelski had announced that the country would henceforth be run by a 21-member junta, the "military council for national salvation." He declared a "state...
...more alarming, TIME'S board stressed that the developing downturn is no longer confined largely to housing and autos, but has now spilled over into so-called feeder industries like steel, machine tools, building supplies and, through them, into the national economy as a whole. Figures released last week by the Federal Reserve Board showed that industrial production dropped by 2.1% in November, the fourth monthly decline in a row. That was the largest one-month slump since May of 1980, and was a clear signal that worse difficulties are still to come. Meanwhile, the Fed also reported that...
...after a week or so, some of the deported bears inevitably show up in Churchill again, having trekked back at speeds up to 30 miles a day. Next year Churchill plans a different tactic: obstreperous bears will simply be locked up for a few weeks in sturdy concrete-and-steel cages inside an abandoned Quonset hut. During their brief captivity, they will need no care other than some watering. Finally, when Hudson Bay starts freezing and the bears begin to think passionately about chasing seals on the ice, they can be safely released. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Ed Ogle/Churchill
...year will be chosen next week by racing writers. It is almost certain to be John Henry, a six-year-old bay who won eight of his ten races in 1981 and $1,798,030, to extend his record winnings to $3,022,810. John Henry is not a steel-driving man exactly; he is a gelding, a tragic condition referred to around the backstretch as the unkindest...