Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks like a horse suddenly reined tight. The crew grimaces, for the rough sand and gravel can grind even 2¼ -in. steel tow wires into whiskers...
...gentle tweak of a steel wheel not much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...
...strong dollar puts pressure not only on U.S. exporters, but also on all American businesses that face competition from foreign imports. The U.S. steel industry, for example, is already hard hit. Since January steel shipments from West Germany, Japan and other competitors have jumped 45%. Foreign companies have now captured 17.5% of the American steel market. .Other industries expected to be hurt by rising imports include autos, apparel, machine tools and consumer electronics. Former Treasury Official Bergsten fears that unless the dollar weakens, up to 1 million Americans will lose their jobs...
...drained into three 1,600-lb. steel cylinders and will be flown to Tooele as well...
...monicker was Mobtown, after its citizens' proclivity for rioting. Because it was long famed for 50 beer, 100 crabcakes and 150 rye whisky, it was more affectionately dubbed Nickel City. Bawlamer, 252 years old, was traditionally a blue-collar, beer-and-shot town, built on 19th century technologies, mainly steel and shipbuilding, that have since trailed off, as has its population. Of its 780,000 people, down from 939,000 in 1960, almost 55% are now black, of whom 40% or more are jobless...