Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly. His delineation of the organizations and charlatans that have cashed in on a society's introspection is cruelly exact...
...Real Paper has proven, the steel and glass '70s, if not quite the winter of our discontent, are still no summer of love; as if to underline that point the lead feature in the first issue of Politicks delves into the enigmatic soul of Jerry Brown. It is a good piece: reporter Nancy Skelton thoroughly details Brown's backtracking in preparation for a run against Carter in 1980--the "era of limits" is now the "era of possibilities," E.F. Schumacher notwithstanding. It is one of the best of the pieces that have been written on the ex-Jesuit...
...COLUMNS--regular and occassional, it says, so we won't know who will be showing up week to week--are a pleasant surprise. Ronald Steel on foreign affairs and Walter Karp on Carter's Trilateral Connection both are provocative reading. The back columns deal with the arts, and are uniformly excellent. Reed Whittimore, who too rarely writes for The New Republic, weighs in with a good blast of William "Fishbait" Miller's kiss-and-tell "expose" of how Congress really works--a book that deserves to be burned if ever one did. Edward Diamond tells the depressing story...
None of that is likely to solve the long-term difficulties of the steel industry. The trouble is the worldwide low level of capital investment. Sluggish global economic growth and new technologies-the building of smaller cars, for example-have reduced worldwide demand for steel and left mills in Europe, Japan and the U.S. with excess capacity. The Europeans and Japanese have been trying to get rid of the surplus steel by selling it in the U.S.-and also to each other; Europeans complain about the Japanese invading their home markets. U.S. steel companies have a special problem: many...
...Brian Weber of Reserve, La., who was passed over for a Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. training program. Kaiser had signed an agreement with the United Steel Workers specifying that for every white given a craft, job, one black would also be selected. On Weber's motion, a district judge enjoined the agreement...