Word: taranto
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...German steel industry, the European Commission in Brussels, and E.C. countries, which must unanimously approve new state subsidies -- at a time when Europe's steel industry as a whole is awash in excess capacity and red ink. Italy wants to salvage 2,000 of 5,800 imperiled jobs at Taranto, in the impoverished Mezzogiorno, while Spain is struggling to cushion the blow in the politically troubled Basque region, where 9,700 steelworkers are targeted for dismissal...
...last week Italy angrily rejected the Commission's final demand on the Taranto works, threatening the entire rickety deal. The Eurocrats asked for 1.2 million tons of production cuts; Rome, which sought to spend $2.9 billion on the complex in hopes of selling it, declared that unacceptable. Other ministers then balked at the German and Spanish deals...
...techniques of dive-bombing and torpedo bombing were still relatively new, and aerial torpedoes were almost impossible to use in water as shallow as Pearl Harbor. Filching an idea from a recent British torpedo raid against the Italian naval base of Taranto, Genda had technicians create auxiliary wooden tail fins that would keep torpedoes closer to the surface; others converted armor-piercing shells into bombs. But drilling was Fuchida's main task, and all summer his planes staged trial runs over Kagoshima Bay in Kyushu, chosen for its physical resemblance to Pearl. Only in September did Genda tell...
EMORY'S Policy Statement on Discriminatory Harassment aims its restrictions at "objectionable epithets, demeaning depictions or treatment, and threatened or actual abuse or harm," as well as sexual harassment, which it defines at length. Chester E. Finn, a former assistant secretary of education, and James Taranto of the Heritage Foundation are very upset by the restrictions at Emory and other colleges...
Finn was moved to write an article in Commentary in which he pointed to anti-harassment codes as a sign that the college campus was becoming "an island of repression in a sea of freedom." James Taranto complains in the most recent issue of College Voice that the codes "stifle the free exchange of ideas...