Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, 17 Cuban inmates in Laredo, Texas, escaped from a medium-security detention facility early yesterday by climbing through a steel roof grating. Authorities recaptured all but three of the escapees within hours...
...19th century streets are incomparable? That the physical past is worth preserving? Did a majority of Americans in 1970 actually prefer Century City to San Francisco? Were people fetched by the shiny new discord of Houston suburbs more than by shabby, genteel New Orleans, by the glass and steel of downtown Minneapolis more than by the brick and stone of downtown St. Paul...
When asked about the fact that a steam shovel was reportedly digging up the Yale Bowl turf, and a large steel object resembling a central heating unit was being lowered into the resulting hole and the field was being sodded by a single unknown figure wearing a Yale hockey jersey and blue sunglasses. Cozza said, "Wow, he's great. He must be a superman. Where is he? I need him for the defensive line...
Some equity funds managed to cut their losses because bearish managers had moved away from cyclical stocks, such as steel and tires, and into defensive shares in food and drug companies, which are less vulnerable in an economic downturn. Some funds that specialize in electric and telephone utilities dropped 12% or less. Other prescient managers had built up their cash reserves, which lowered their exposure to the market and allowed them to pay off any redemptions without being forced to sell stocks at a loss. Says John Neff, who manages the Windsor Fund: "We saw a correction coming...
Brazilian farmers readily embraced such Rebel contributions as the kerosene lamp and the steel-blade plow, a godsend to a country that hadn't got past the simple hoe. The Southern missionaries whom the settlers hired as teachers also had a lasting impact. The educational tradition they began is one reason that Americana has only a 14% illiteracy rate in a country where one-fourth of the population cannot read or write...