Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Ever since the city fathers of Florence ordered up brass cannon and iron balls in 1326 to defend themselves against the city of Lucca, in the first recorded use of explosive-powered metal artillery, gunsmiths have been trying to perfect their weapons. Guns have improved over the centuries-in range, accuracy and deadliness-but their firepower has always depended on the rapid expansion of exploding gases down a tube, which pushes the bullet forward. The maximum speed such gases-and thus the gun's projectile too -can reach is severely constrained. None of the particles in the gases...
...Flagler Street. To attract new depositors, the city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...
Dick Chalpin, a DEQE spokesman, said yesterday Organic Chemicals dumped 1600 tons of industrial waste between 1950 and 1978, when the site was closed down. Some of the waste includes iron manganese, magnesium, acrylates, latex emulsions, and alcohols...
...steel industry is tightly tied to the ups and downs of the economy, and generally sluggish growth in most industrial countries has reduced demand. The International Iron and Steel Institute reports that in the first seven months of this year production in 29 industrialized and developing nations was down 5.5%, and is expected to fall even faster for the rest of the year in the industrialized countries...
What you do see, however, is the "iron triangle," the term applied to the relationship among the people in a given Government department, a special interest group outside the Government and the members and/or staff of a congressional committee or subcommittee, all working on the same problem. Triangle describes the positioning of the participants, iron their mobility. Such arrangements are further immobilized by the sheer number of subcommittees dealing with any one issue. With the power of the leadership in both the House and the Senate reduced to almost nothing these days, bills go to several committees simultaneously, which then...