Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK, Courtney Steel, the 17-year-old student body president of the Spence School in New York, was killed by a drunk driver...
While both politicians and the press have been quick to remind New Yorkers that substance abuse was the tragedy's principal cause, they have chosen to focus on Ms. Steel's ostensible abuse of alcohol instead of the behavior of the driver who struck her down. After all, she used a fake i.d. to buy drinks at Dorian's Red Hand, the same bar that Jennifer Dawn Levin visited on the night of her gruesome murder two months...
CAMERON HAPPENS to be a gun enthusiast. In interviews he can go on and on about calibres and muzzle velocities, incessantly rattling off brand names and model years. In his films he'll glide the camera lovingly over the polished aluminum and gleaming steel; he'll make them central characters. Rambo's trusty bow was a Cameron invention, and for Aliens, Cameron designed the "smart-guns" and "pulse-rifles" himself. That explains the sport shop scene...
...sanctions package bans new American investments in South Africa and prohibits the import of such South African commodities as steel, iron, farm products, uranium and coal -- worth a total of $713 million in 1985. It suspends South African Airways' landing privileges in the U.S. The congressional package will reinforce the effect of somewhat weaker sanctions adopted last month by the twelve members of the European Community, which do not contain any provisions affecting coal imports or airline landing rights...
...August by the Senate (84 to 14) and then later by the House of Representatives (308 to 77), the President sent a letter to House Speaker Tip O'Neill offering to impose some measures in an Executive Order. The proposal included bans on the import of iron and steel but omitted coal and other important items, like the cancellation of airport landing rights. Congress was in no mood to settle for half a loaf. Reagan's offer, said a Lugar aide, was "a day late and a dollar short...