Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the new credit package, which will finance four hydroelectric, coal, steel and oil-exploration projects, the two countries signed agreements expanding consular facilities and cultural programs, including a Festival of India for the Soviet Union similar to the one that traveled to the U.S. last year. Gandhi turned down a Soviet offer to build two nuclear power plants. India already has the capability to build them and wants to avoid dependency on Soviet nuclear-fuel supplies. Indian officials took a cautious line on a Soviet offer to provide military equipment to counter any Airborne Warning and Control System...
...primary role as a museum, a turkey. It differed from most other architectural turkeys by wearing its entrails outside its skin. Its architects, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, had festooned its four sides with such a tangle of ducts, pipes, risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead...
...news just keeps coming. A leading shipbuilder announces that nearly 40% of its workers will be laid off, and those who keep their jobs will have to take 10% salary cuts and a 50% slash in their usual year-end bonuses. Thousands of steelworkers are idle, as mammoth steel furnaces stand silent. Coal mines are closing, and even some automobile assembly lines are shut down...
...grow by just 2.3% for the fiscal year ending in March 1987, the lowest level since 1974, when GNP dropped by .4%. Even the promise of lifetime employment, a cornerstone of the country's social structure, is crumbling. Says Toshio Isago, an executive vice president at Nippon Kokan, a steel and shipbuilding conglomerate: "We have experienced hardships in the past, but nothing on this scale...
...family member. If there were no wage earner, however, the mother and child would receive about $498 from AFDC, along with $74 in food stamps, for a total monthly income of $572, or $286 each for the mother and child. They would also receive comprehensive medical coverage. Percy Steel, president of the Urban League chapter in Oakland, says of an unemployed father: "If he has feelings for his family, he gets lost. Welfare is tearing these families apart...