Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future. Huge industrial cities are under construction, one at Jubail on the Persian Gulf, the other at Yanbu on the Red Sea. By the end of the century, the two cities are to accommodate five new refineries, seven petrochemical facilities, a hydrocarbon fertilizer plant and an iron and steel complex...
...life. But relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill near Djakarta...
Even more devastating was Peking's decision last month to halt work on the second phase of the giant Baoshan Iron and Steel Works near Shanghai. That grandiose $5 billion undertaking, seen as the cornerstone of industrial modernization in China, was contracted in 1978 to various consortiums, including one headed by West Germany's Schloemann-Siemag AG. The scuttled portion of the project includes plans for a $650 million cold-rolling mill, to have been built jointly by Schloemann-Siemag and three other West German firms, a $425 million contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and a $140 million...
...wear makeup, perfume or deodorant. At each meal she eats only one dish-ranging from organically grown vegetables to wild game such as bear and lion-prepared in aluminum pans. She drinks water drawn from several natural springs. Later in her treatment, she will spend time in a stainless steel booth, being exposed to small amounts of gas fumes, formaldehyde, insecticide, perfume and smoke. Rossall records her reactions to every meal and chemical test in a diary...
Containment is certainly needed. Nuclear wastes have been piling up from years of military, medical and power-plant operations. At present, most of it is temporarily-and perhaps dangerously -stored in huge steel-and-concrete tanks. No decision has yet been made on any of the various types of geological storage dumps under study. Carter explains that unlike the oil or gases kept in the ground under pressure at places like Mont Belvieu, solid nuclear wastes could not trickle through the salt. In fact, he and his colleagues already have some preliminary ideas about how the debris should be buried...