Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Herald story says the Bowl's decaying steel and concrete facade is the reason for its replacement...
Hope is Africa's rarest commodity. Yet buried though it is amid the despair that haunts the continent, there is more optimism today than in decades. Francisco Mucavele found hope last September when an armored steel Casspir rolled over the hill and began to blow up the land mines contaminating Mozambique's rich soil. Olga Haptemariam acquired it in Eritrea's war-scarred port city of Massawa when she laid down 2,000 birr for a license to open a building-supply store. The villagers of N'Tjinina are finding it as they prepare for the solemn experience of voting...
That is where more rural magic comes into play. The newest local healer lumbers into the countryside on 17 tons of armor plate and giant steel wheels. The Frelimo government has invested its scarce cash to bring in a fleet of Casspir demining vehicles, operated by a private subsidiary of the South African army, to get rid of the mines that keep farmers and herders off the country's lush lands...
Daniel K. Hanalainen '98, an applied mathematics concentrator, was one of the Harvard students who served as a translator. Hanalainen said he helped work with a steel and copper designing business form Liepzig in the former East Germany...
...first job as Premier will be to steel China against the pressure to follow in its neighbors' footsteps and devalue its renminbi trading currency. Those competing economies have a step up on Beijing, whose goods are relatively more expensive. Chinese sales to the rest of Asia fell 1.4% in January compared with 1997, and as South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia flood the world with cheap goods, China's trade with the West will take a beating. If Beijing ultimately succumbs and devalues its currency, the move will probably force Hong Kong to do the same, which could trigger...