Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale of beer in the Orange Bowl. Small beer, perhaps, to everyone except imbibers in Miami, but some more momentous decisions were also made last week. The citizens of Pittsburgh voted 2 to 1 to relax pollution-control laws, hoping to open up new jobs in the beleaguered steel industry. And more than 3 million voters-a record number-came out in Ohio to repeal, 2 to 1, the state law allowing people to register to vote as late as Election Day itself. The main fear: last-minute registration would encourage fraud. Across the nation, Americans who went...
...Ohio, after a long and bitter fight, voters decided, 63% to 37%, to kill a proposal that would have banned steel-jawed leg-hold animal traps. The legislature had bottled up the measure, but antitrappers gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot. The proposal was defeated by voters in the state's rural areas. In the end, voters were swayed by the argument that the ban would cripple Ohio's $10 million-a-year fur industry (mostly muskrat...
...walkout by longshoremen at container ports from Maine to Texas has so far sent no more than a ripple through the U.S. economy. It has been a strike of a thousand pinpricks-an annoying shortage here, a raised price there. Unlike stoppages in major industries such as coal and steel, which threaten the nation's ability to produce, the dock strike has only slowed or stopped deliveries of hundreds of less-than-vital imported items-Danish hams, French wines, foreign cars and Mickey Mouse Tricky Trikes...
Harrah's approach to managing the chaotic business of gambling is to leave nothing to chance. High above its crowded Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos, where $2 billion changes hands each year, security guards crawl along steel catwalks and watch for cheaters through one-way ceiling mirrors. Near by, cashiers match bingo winners against a computerized list of more than 4,000 cards. Players who switch cards, load dice or pinch bets pose a constant threat to profitability. So does the danger of thievery by employees: to discourage theft, cash from the company's 3,900 gaming tables...
...take at least $1,300 an acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner for some...