Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High above the street, in Massachusetts General Hospital's Grey Building, behind steel double-doors and space-age airlocks, scientists are busily searching for the "cure" to a deadly disease that may kill hundreds of thousands before it is conquered. The malefactor is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS...
...roar of the crowd welled up like a stock car engine at the Firecracker 500: rrroooAAARRRR! the crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight and the players seemed to enjoy raising a ruckus so I tuned out the ESPN announcer who was pontificating about sportsmanslike conduct. A few minutes in the penalty box, I thought. A couple teeth. A little blood. The crowd likes...
Danieli's revenues surged 20% last year, to $139.2 million, and profits increased 37%, to $13.5 million. Looking ahead, the company is blessed with a backlog of orders worth $696 million. Customers appreciate Danieli's state-of- the-art technology and attention to detail. Though many steel plants are built by a team of companies, Danieli often takes charge of every phase of a project, from design to construction...
Much of the credit for Danieli's success goes to the hands-on management style of Cecilia Danieli, who is equally comfortable discussing the fine art of steelmaking with her technicians or negotiating deals with customers. Says W.J. Robertshaw, spokesman for Davy McKee, a British builder of steel mills: "We tend to respect them very much as a power in the land. Danieli is a very resourceful Italian company...
...sense, Danieli was born to be a boss. The company was founded in 1914 by her grandfather Mario Danieli and his brother Timo, who made steel in a primitive furnace. As late as 1955, the firm had only 40 employees. It began to expand during the 1960s under Cecilia's father Luigi, who moved the company from steel production into steel-plant engineering and construction. Luigi had four daughters, but the only one interested in the firm was Cecilia, who started in 1965 as an assistant to her father. Now 72, Luigi has let Cecilia bring in a team...