Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City subway is cold, and spooky with shadows. Water drips from the vaulted ceiling into small pools beside the tracks below. At one end the platform a rusting steel bridge leads to the street elevator. It is past midnight. A well-dressed man walks nervously up and down, a few steps at a time, waiting for a train. He knows he is a target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate...
...Vanessa Redgrave's Workers' Revolutionary Party. Among the more serious minor parties, the Scottish Nationalists figure to lose nearly all of their eleven parliamentary seats, thanks to the failure of a referendum that would have led to a separate assembly for Scotland. The Liberals, led by David Steel, could have a real effect on the election outcome if they hang on to most of their 14 seats. The result could be a hung Parliament in which Liberal support would be necessary to form a government. Steel has hinted that his Liberals would be willing to support either...
Officially, the National Economic Plan was 99.7% fulfilled in the first quarter, but that figure is misleading. The Statistical Administration listed the output of 57 products that are basic to the Soviet economy, and 23 were down from the same period in 1978. Such industrial necessities as steel, chemicals, fertilizer, cement, nonferrous metals and forest products were below last year's production levels; such dietary staples as milk, vegetable oil and butter were also produced in smaller quantities...
Much of the cartel's wealth has been squandered on well-intentioned but poorly planned and executed development schemes: atomic power plants for Iran, whose bountiful natural resources can meet that nation's energy needs for a century or more; steel mills and petrochemical plants at remote desert sites throughout the Gulf, where transportation costs alone render the products uncompetitive...
Among the shabby, working-class shacks of Volta Redonda, a Brazilian steel town of 150,000 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, small groups of neighbors gathered on five different nights last week for a few hours of discussion. Steelworkers, retired welders, grandfathers, young housewives with children on their laps, sipped coffee on borrowed chairs and swapped views on local and national problems: the endless waiting lines at the state hospital, the expulsion of rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily...