Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Security Agency will sweep the site for bugs before construction begins later this month. The committee will take the additional precaution of discussing sensitive matters inside a top-secret "bubble," a conference room constructed of steel panels impervious to external listening devices. The human factor has been secured as well: staff members will soon sign a mandatory "nondisclosure oath" promising to stay...
Shortly before 6:30 each weekday, the gray Toyota station wagon glides down the driveway and stops a few feet beyond the steel security fence in Great Falls, Va. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North rolls down his window to greet the watching press corps shivering in the dark. Ever cordial, the former National Security Council aide exchanges light banter with the group. A photographer warns him that an accident is already clogging commuter traffic, and North retorts in mock dismay, "You mean I have to listen to the news?" A few flashbulbs pop and North speeds down the narrow country road...
...employees, or more than a quarter of the Chicago headquarters staff, as part of a program to save $100 million in 1987. Battered USX, which lost $1.83 billion in 1986 and fended off the predations of Raider Carl Icahn, last week said it would shut down four steel plants and lay off about 4,000 of its 22,000 active steelworkers. Something of a storm was stirred up last week when the New York Times reported that CBS, which has already pruned some 1,200 of its 15,500 employees, would ask its news division to slice $50 million from...
...arrived at the company in late 1979 from the chairman's job at Zenith, Akron-based Firestone was reeling under more than $1 billion in debt and an image problem in its most basic business. The company had been forced to recall some 9 million of its 500-model steel-belted radial tires because of alleged widespread defects. Nevin's strategy was to return Firestone's focus to tiremaking by spinning off distracting subsidiaries. He sold eleven businesses that manufactured dozens of items, from seat belts to beer kegs. Such products now constitute only 9% of the company's sales...
Since 1982 the Administration has negotiated no fewer than 18 agreements with steel-producing countries that limit exports to the U.S. market. Last year, as the trade hue and cry rose once again on Capitol Hill, the Administration pressured Japan and Taiwan into limiting their exports of machine tools to the U.S. for five years. When West Germany and Switzerland refused to go along with such "voluntary" restraints, Washington set quotas that rolled back their exports to levels set in 1981 and 1985. Also in 1986, the Administration negotiated separate agreements with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that...