Word: steels
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Recent labor action in Pittsburgh suggests that unions may be regaining some of their lost vitality. The targeted industry, which any football fan would be quick to identify, is steel. More than 8000 Pittsburgh steelworkers walked out of their jobs two weeks ago after the financially shaky Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation threatened to cut wages by 18 percent. This is the first steel walk-out since 1959--a time when American business was experiencing an economic boom...
...bargaining tool for workers. Pittsburgh serves as a good model for the movement as a whole because the problems plaguing American labor in general also apply to the United Steelworkers union. Union membership has declined by one half in the last five years. Add this to the depressed American steel industry and you've got a pretty low-spirted bunch of steelworkers...
...answered, he waved a silver pistol in their faces and said, "Now do you remember me?" They assured him that they did. Once, Brown told the Boston Herald, "our guard fell asleep in our room with his pistol right there. But there were other guards outside, and two steel doors, and more to get to the surface, which would have been impossible." After their own clothes became filthy, the four were given gym shorts and shirts to put on. Said Brown: "We looked kind of silly in those things, but they were clean...
...pilgrimage from 800 to 1500 A.D. Following the Spanish conquest, the gold-greedy conquistadores heard gaudy reports that the Indians had thrown gold, jewels and young virgins into the cenote to propitiate their deities. Nothing was ever found until 1904. Then American Archaeologist Edward H. Thompson, working with a steel bucket appended to a simple boom and derrick, and later with primitive deep-sea diving equipment, spent more than five years exploring the sinkhole. Thompson gradually brought up gold bells in the shape of monkeys, sheet-gold masks, scepters, sacrificial knives and a multitude of other objects including an assortment...
...stay competitive, owners of older, dumber structures are retrofitting them, bringing in computers and sensors and tearing out walls and ceilings to install the wiring necessary to raise their building intelligence quotients. The Park Avenue Atrium in New York City, for example, was stripped down to its structural steel during remedial reworking...