Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes, as the land itself. "It was a land of excesses--of blazing light and great weathers where a man stood exposed," Madson wrote about the grasslands as they were a century ago. "The wealth of the tall prairie was its undoing." Covetous men subdued it with the steel plow. Odd how history is now repeating itself. Wealth once again is the undoing of the heartland...
...industry built of iron and steel is showing an affinity for the silicon chips of high technology. Railroads are the third-biggest private users of computers, after airlines and banks. At Burlington Northern operations headquarters, a battery of terminals has replaced a 65-ft. wall display that was formerly used for monitoring the whereabouts of locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast...
...half-mile steel-truss Intercity Bridge across the Columbia River, connecting the cities of Pasco and Kennewick, Wash. The enthusiastic jury said, "Not just a great technical accomplishment; it is a work...
...critics fault the building for its failure to blend with its neighbors, especially the colonnaded City/County Building, built in 1911, and the Richard J. Daley Center, a Miesian steel high-rise completed in 1965. They also charge that it is too frivolous for a government office. Although its inverted-bowl silhouette evokes the traditional rotunda, Jahn has transcended the two styles that dress most government structures: neoclassicism, with its air of judicious civic doings, and modernism, with its sober grids that speak of rectitude and rationality...
...former Lord Warden Hotel now houses the customs and excise offices. From a window on the top floor, it is still possible to hear "the grating roar of pebbles" that Arnold heard on the beach at night. A recent morning was very still. The steel-and-concrete docks jutted out into the harbor; a hovercraft bobbed passively on the water; passengers moved single file from a ferry to a train that soon started up, shrieked metal on metal and moved on. The sea continually changed color and direction, the sun laying a slice of silver on the horizon, which faded...