Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steel, Pittsburgh...
Business: steel, chemical products, real estate, financial services...
South African operations: According to spokesman Bill Kestlen, U.S. Steel holds a minority equity interest in three small South African companies: Prieska Copper Mines, Feralloys, and Associated Manganese Minds of South Africa Ltd. The total number of employees of those companies is less than 100,000, Kestlen said, and U.S. Steel itself has no employees in the country. He added that a similar shareholder petition in 1981 was voted down...
...easier than missiles or warheads to track and draw a bead on. Just two possibilities: the Soviets could orbit a "space mine" that would blow up near an American satellite and destroy it, or a countersatellite that would discharge a cloud of pellets, capable at orbital speeds of piercing steel, or even beach sand, which could pit and disable laser mirrors. American satellites might be defended against such attacks. But once that kind of cycle begins, says William Shuler, coordinator of S.D.I. research at Livermore, "we are going to be in the counter-countermea sure game forever...
...Cable, while it's a monopoly, is not a monopoly on services," Steel said, citing competition between various specialized entertainment channels, with movie theaters and with VCR systems as well as the newest competitor, sattelite dishes...