Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when United earned a $45.5 million profit on sales of $2.4 billion, 53% of its business came from Washington. By 1974, the Hartford, Conn.-based company had reduced that to a third of $3.3 billion annual sales. One reason: it acquired Essex International, Inc., a major producer of electromechanical wire. That move gave United a foothold in both the auto and construction industries and was largely responsible for lifting profits last year to $104.7 million, from $58.1 million in 1973. Still, United was determined to diversify further in order to reduce Government business to 25% of total sales...
...staged by Hollywood. By week's end nearly 100,000 of the unarmed marchers, asserting Morocco's claim to the mineral-rich Spanish colony, had moved seven miles across the border and were camped within sight of the euphemistically named dissuasion line-minefields and concertinas of barbed wire installed by the Spanish forces to halt the invaders. As diplomats frantically tried to find a face-saving way to defuse the confrontation and avoid bloodshed, tension mounted...
...President knows that he cannot realistically expect the massive aid Washington has been giving Israel-especially as the U.S. approaches an election year. Sadat would, nonetheless, like sophisticated defensive weapons: patrol boats for the Mediterranean coastline and the Suez Canal, the F-5E "defensive" jet fighter, and the TOW wire-guided antitank missile, which Israel used effectively in 1973 against Egyptian tanks in the Sinai. He will not ask Washington to stop aid to Israel, but he will reiterate a request that it not heat up the arms race by giving Jerusalem advanced weapons like the Pershing missile...
...showed his pleasure to be finally singing in Boston, long an isolated stronghold of reggae sentiment in this country. Bounding about the stage like Mosca, brandishing the screaming-white-starred shirt made famous in his Cambridge cult film, The Harder They Come, dancing and sliding in eels of black wire, he flung himself into his music with unabashed fervor...
...their way across France, driven toward the machine guns of Poperinghe or the Butte de Warlincourt by the abstract decisions of rigid or incompetent staff officers. At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, 110,000 English and Australian troops started walking toward the rusty thickets of German barbed wire along the Somme valley; a few hours later, 60,000 of them were dead or wounded, and the cries of abandoned men were heard rising from no man's land for days afterward. The Somme offensive was the greatest military slaughter in history. The Edwardian vocabulary of war, with...