Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole engine-and-pylon assembly might have to be redesigned and manufactured with strengthened chrome steel, Duralumin and stainless steel fittings. These would be tested in wind tunnels, simulators and actual flights. The process could take weeks or months-or longer...
...Inadequate investment by companies in new plants and modern machinery, partly because of low profits and relatively high business taxes that feed funds to consumers rather than investors. Additional funds are swallowed up by Government-mandated projects. U.S. Steel Corp., which in Youngstown, Ohio, is still using some equipment made 70 years ago, estimates that 30% of its capital investment over the next few years will be spent on pollution-control equipment...
Third, a number of developing countries today produce their own steel and their own ships, not to mention their own textiles. This has led to the necessity for a rather wide-ranging restructuring of industrial capacities and professional capabilities in the developed world. This process is not going fast enough...
...Polish Catholics needed large numbers of new buildings. But the Communist government, which has total control of building permits and supplies, played a maddening cat-and-mouse game of rejection and delay. John Paul's most telling achievement in Cracow was the erection of a modernistic concrete-and-steel church at Nowa Huta (New Foundry), a steel town designed to provide no church for its 200,000 residents. Getting permission and putting up the church took 20 years...
...environments and the reuse of finite resources should be as much a matter of concern as the natural ecology. Energy shortages and the faltering economy gave the movement immediacy. Old buildings, one critic has noted, are "a kind of stored-up energy," and they are in place, whereas the steel, glass and aluminum devoured by skyscrapers and shopping centers require huge quantities of energy to produce and assemble. (According to one federal study, an existing building can operate for 16 years on the amount of energy it takes to build the structure from scratch.) Also, in most instances, though...