Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time. Suddenly, at 7:38 a.m., the Summit Venture, a 609-ft. Liberian-registered freighter that had been heading for Tampa to pick up a cargo of phosphate, smashed into a bridge abutment. A 1,300-ft. stretch of roadway trembled violently, then ripped away from the bridge. Steel and concrete crashed down, some of it landing on the freighter's bow. A Greyhound bus carrying 23 people plummeted 140 ft. into the water, along with three cars and a pickup truck...
...tradition. Only about 40% of the estimated 2.5 million class rings expected to be sold this year will be gold. With the price of men's college rings at $200 or more, and women's at about $135, thrifty young lovers are turning to cheaper sentiment-stainless-steel rings, costing...
More accurately, it seemed like a scene from Annie, with the failing British Steel Corporation as the orphan child, and the part of Oliver Warbucks played by Ian MacGregor, general partner of Manhattan's Lazard Freres & Co. MacGregor, 67, was hired after nearly a year's search by the British government, which owns British Steel, turned up no one in England to run the moribund firm. Forty names were considered, and two British executives turned down...
...full bonus for his firm, the new boss must overcome enormous problems. British Steel lost $700 million in the fiscal year that ended March 31 and is expected to do as poorly during the next twelve months. Now technically bankrupt, it is dependent on handouts from the British Treasury. Although it accounts for up to 80% of Great Britain's steel production, the company has been losing business because of a 13-week strike earlier this year. It also suffers because of its dependence on sickly British companies like Automaker BL Ltd. The aging firm, still...
...into the quagmire of Britain's aged, failing, government-controlled heavy manufacturing industries? Despite his new nationality, he has maintained close ties to his homeland as the owner of a Scottish country home, where he frequently vacations. He also says that he has an "emotional attachment" to the steel industry, where he received early training. And as one associate observed, "If he does well, he could get the reward of rewards and be knighted." As an American citizen, he can receive only an honorary dubbing. And before any future laurels, MacGregor will have some difficult work. In addition...