Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mostly the kind of stoic acceptance that Indians tend to show in times of sorrow and pain. "She's gone," they told one another, rarely using her name, because in India, "she" meant Indira. All around Connaught Place, the capital's commercial center, there was the sound of steel shutters slamming down as shop after shop closed for twelve days of mourning. By late afternoon, New Delhi had become a ghostly city of empty streets. Flags were lowered to half-staff. On television, prayers were offered by priests and holy men representing India's main religions and sects. Patrols were...
...field, he becomes the man of steel. "He's had to block lot of strong noseguards," Corbin adds, "He has to make a lot of important blocks...
...tragically simple mistake." After weeks of discussion about possible failures of intelligence and other lapses leading up to the September bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, that was the conclusion of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. Had a steel gate or some other barrier been installed to protect the approach to the building, the terrorist attack would probably not have been successful. The report adds that the relocation of the embassy headquarters from Muslim West Beirut to Christian East Beirut was progressing slowly and that the contractor hired to build a gate was preoccupied with other projects...
...Yorg Voyagis is slightly leaden. His and Charly's love affair is sacrificed to the more explosive aspects of the plot, so that when Charly says she loves him, it leaves us cold, Sami Frey as the crazy Khalil is a terrific villain whose wild, rolling eyes belie a steel trap of a mind...
...jealous. Although agriculture has boomed, much of Chinese industry has continued to stagnate. Unemployment in the cities is higher than 10%, while poor planning has, the resolution acknowledges, "seriously dampened the enthusiasm, initiative and creativeness of enterprises." Shortages of electrical power have idled about 20% of industry. Scarcity of steel and cement has brought construction projects to a halt for months on end. Meanwhile, more than 40% of the government's budget has gone to subsidizing inefficient industries and basic commodity prices...