Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beneath Begin's disarming good manners are a quick, disciplined mind, sharp tongue and a will of tempered steel. He is so savage in the give-and-take of political debate, for instance, that his Knesset speeches became famous as bloodlettings. These dramatic personality contrasts have earned Begin the description "inverted sabra"-after the Israeli desert fruit that is prickly outside but soft and sugary within. The Premier's sweetness is on the surface; the toughness is inside...
...plowed into another ship. As coincidence would have it, the second ship was Venoil's sister Venpet, traveling in ballast in the opposite direction. Both supertankers had been built at the same yard in Japan at a cost of $28 million each; both were owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp., and chartered to the Gulf Oil Corp...
...acknowledge that oil imports are increasing largely because the U.S., alone among major industrial nations, is pursuing a broad-based program of economic expansion from which everyone else is benefiting. Japan, for example, has kept its factories humming despite slow domestic economic growth, mostly by selling cars, TVs, steel and other products to the U.S. Consequently Japan is running an $8.5 billion trade surplus with the U.S., drawing American protests against the Japanese trade barriers that keep U.S. and other imports...
Cuisinart CFP-5A ($225) and CFP9 ($160). The French machine that popularized all processors. Little difference between the two models, except that the more expensive version has a steel base (v. plastic for the cheaper one) and is a little faster. Compact, versatile, durable...
Because of massive oil imports and deep inroads into the American market for steel, color TV, microwave ovens and other products made by aggressive foreign competitors, the U.S. trade deficit is ballooning toward $30 billion, about five times the 1976 figure. That has sent the dollar to new lows against such currencies as the Japanese yen, German mark and Swiss franc, and set off a protectionist clamor for restrictions on imports to save American jobs...