Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past year or so the U.S. steel industry has resembled an aging boxing champ, once invincible but now hobbled by old bones and slow reflexes. The young contender has been imported steel, largely of Japanese origin, which in some months has seized a fifth of the domestic market. Late last fall the White House pledged to help salve the champ's wounds by toughening up U.S. sanctions against dumping-that is, selling foreign steel in the U.S. for less than it costs to make, or is sold for, in its home country. Last week the Administration announced details...
...computing the trigger prices, the Government consulted with Japanese officials, whose nation's mills make the world's least expensive steel that is imported into the U.S. Last month an American team led by Robert Crandall, deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, holed up in Washington with a 20-member Japanese delegation, poring over data supplied by the visitors concerning cost of materials and labor, overhead, depreciation and the like. The conclusion: for 17 steel products that make up 75% of the market the average trigger price would...
...anywhere" routine, in which Burns will drive by in a cab, control all the stations on a car radio, or appear suddenly in a supermarket aisle (this type of thing has been used from Topper to Bewitched, and was employed to greater comic effect by a steel-jawed villain in this summer's repulsive Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me); and three, the "desperation name-in-vain" pun (Denver: Whew! Thank God. Burns: You're welcome...
Redec, a holding company, now controls much of the lucrative construction business in Saudi Arabia. It also owns pharmaceutical, tire-recapping, steel fabricating and drinking water-bottling plants. Together with an Italian company, it is dredging parts of the Suez Canal. In 1976 Redec's revenues were more than $1 billion. Apart from his banking interests, Pharaon owns a substantial share of International Systems, a modular-housing firm in Mobile, Ala., and is the largest shareholder in Sam P. Wallace Co., a Dallas-based mechanical contracting firm...
Some are satin some are steel...