Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WANDERLUST, Steel...
...fans who recognize that pro sports are as much about greed as glory and cheered on by local boosters who feel that no city can call itself big league without a pro-football team. More than mere football, the struggle was redolent of the battles among 19th century steel and rail barons, who paid lip service to the virtues of free markets and then fought like mad to corner them...
...arms to South Africa. If evasions of the ban continued, U.S. military assistance to the offending nations could be stopped in twelve months. If there was no progress on dismantling apartheid in a year, the U.S. could extend its trade embargo to such South African exports as diamonds, steel, food and textiles...
More than 1,000 steelworkers bowed their heads to pray in the McBride Union Hall in Gary last Thursday night before heading to picket the huge Gary Works steel plant. For the first time in 27 years, U.S. Steel, now a division of the newly renamed USX corporation, was shut down. In all, 23,000 members of the United Steelworkers union walked off their jobs at 16 plants in nine states, from Pennsylvania to Utah. The workers insist that the company has locked them out, while management calls the action a strike. By any name, predicts Union Spokesman Gary Hubbard...
Rybczynski keeps differentiating between what a house looks like and how it functions, and charges that architects all too often concentrate on the former. A case in point was Le Corbusier's celebrated "New Spirit" pavilion at the Paris exposition of 1925: bare white walls, stairs made out of steel pipes, only a few restaurant-style chairs. "The house is a machine for living in," said Le Corbusier. This concept became very fashionable, but Rybczynski finds it hopelessly contradictory: "Marble kitchen counters and bamboo window shades . . . a Matisse on the wall and a sleeping mat on the floor...