Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declared John Brademas, president of New York University and formerly a leading education advocate in Congress. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig notes that the number of students scoring above 450 in math and 500 in verbal on SATs has jumped 18% since 1983. "If this was the steel industry and we had an 18% gain in productivity, it would make headlines," says Honig. The downbeat report, he adds, "misleads the public...
Foreign competitors have made startling gains in many fields once dominated by American manufacturers. These graphs show how the percentage of the U.S. market held by American industries has declined since 1970. While steel producers are making at least a modest comeback, the figures show that U.S. consumer electronics is almost gone...
...state-run news agency PAP said some departments in the steel plant resumed work yesterday while others remained idle for maintenance...
...huge Nowa Huta steel mill in Krakow, riot police stormed sleeping steelworkers, hurled deafening percussion grenades and rounded up 38 people...
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told a news conference that the decision to storm the steel mill was inevitable. "The majority wanted to work...We must protect our meager economic potential," he said...