Word: tungsten
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...already alarmingly dependent on imports for many of its most critical industrial raw materials. In all, 98% of America's manganese, 97% of its cobalt, 93% of its aluminum and 91% of its chromium come from foreign ores. More than 50% of its tin, nickel, zinc and tungsten ores are also imported. The supply of several of these materials is susceptible to interruption because they come from either the Soviet Union or from unstable southern African nations that suffer serious internal troubles. The most important minerals include...
...modest, single-story four-room house on a side street that is blockaded at either end and guarded by soldiers carrying German-designed G3 automatic weapons. The Ayatullah receives visitors in what was once his living room, a bare 15-ft. by 20-ft. chamber with six clusters of tungsten spotlights along one wall; cameras of the National Iranian Radio and Television network record every audience...
Even though it opened the second half with a lead, the Crimson's tungsten-tough defense refused to let up on its inexperienced opposition, which began to falter under the shadow-like pressure and make turnovers which gave the ball to Harvard for most of the second half...
...will China pay for these expensive wares? One high-ranking economist dangled before the visitors the still largely untouched prospects in China's good earth. Besides oil and coal, China's natural wealth includes iron, manganese, tungsten, antimony, tin, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, molybdenum and aluminum. Said he: "Remember, it takes four or five tons of titanium to make a single Boeing 747, and we are also rich...
...clock one morning last April, the five-man crew of an isolated oil-drilling rig near Chickasha, Okla., was suddenly surrounded by three bandits wearing ski masks and brandishing shotguns. Without uttering a word, the gunmen removed twelve tungsten carbide drill bits worth about $27,000 from the rig's storage shed and then fled with their booty in the crew's pickup truck...