Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fable's most difficult escapes, though, is the "underwater box." Fable is handcuffed and then locked inside a heavy wood box, which is weighted down with 500 Ibs. of steel and tied shut with 50 feet of chain. A crane then lowers the box in to water, where he makes his escape. Once, in Atlantic City, the feat became even more dangerous than usual, when a wave flipped the box as it was being lowered, sending steel weights crashing around Fable and turning him upside down. "That was as much danger as I ever want to be in," he says...
...before a lit trail of gunpowder burns its way back to a 'bomb that will explode in his face. Not to mention the Board of Death, a contraption to which Bigelow is chained and bound with ropes. Connected to a three-minute timer, a door fitted with 8-in, steel knives will swing shut on Bigelow if he does not escape in time. He usually does, Bigelow also performs an escape sealed inside a heavy plastic bag with a poison snake...
...France, a reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague, near Cherbourg, stores its nuclear waste in giant steel tanks. But the tanks leak. The storage area has reached three times the acceptable levels of radiation. Traces of plutonium are being found along the Normandy coast, and crabs in the area have begun to show ulcerous sores...
Blumenthal and others pledge to arrange a series of meetings between Carter and business leaders. Such meetings do seem to help: for example, on the same day that he assailed Big Oil, the President dropped in on a White House conference between his aides and steel executives and cheered the steelmen by pledging to take vigorous action on any complaints they file against "dumping" of foreign steel in the U.S. (that is, the selling of imports at prices below their costs of production). The President is also considering a major speech on economic policy just before or after his nine...
...also will begin a series of meetings with the business leaders so they can get to know me better and understand what our long-range objectives might be. We have a problem with the steel industry in our country. I had a very productive meeting in this room last week with labor, management, economists and Congressmen who are interested in the steel industry in our nation. The first statement that was made was by the steel executives: "We do not want quotas; we do not want trade barriers to prevent imports of steel. What we want is an enforcement...