Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter spirit quickly spread through the Administration. At the Justice Department, Attorney General Griffin Bell unlocked the massive steel doors of the main entrance for the first time since the antiwar demonstrations during the Nixon Administration. Carter explained that they had been locked "because of a chasm that developed between our Government and many of our people" and had become "a symbolic separation of both disaffected and disadvantaged people from the core of justice...
...factories. Plant closings, often for only a day or two at a time, have idled 400,000 workers by White House estimate, and the blizzardy blast of arctic air at week's end threatened many more layoffs-at least 300,000 in New Jersey alone. General Motors, U.S. Steel and other large companies kept many operations going by switching from natural gas to oil or coal, but all over the Midwest huge quantities of those fuels were immobilized aboard barges stuck in frozen rivers...
...workers in wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron ore, was enabled to cut through the red tape that has strangled its growth...
...crowd for this filmed tribute to the glories of body building included Singer Paul Simon, Painter Jamie Wyeth, Princess Yasmin Khan and a half-dozen muscle-bound kids from Yonkers. After the première, Pumping Iron Star Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced fellow Strongman Franco Columbu, who proceeded to bend steel bars with his bare hands and burst a hot-water bottle with his bare breath. More hulks followed onstage to flex and pose, along with Actress Carroll Baker, who stroked their chests, rubbed their biceps, then faked a swoon. The crowd loved it. "I don't know...
...shirt, crumpled white trousers and red, white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 deer rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...