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Former President Eisenhower and former Secretary of Labor James Mitchellapproached Livernash after a major American steelstrike in 1959 and asked him to coordinate a studyprobing the problems in the steel industry...
...floor and ceiling slope closer and closer, and soon it is necessary to drop down to hands and knees. Each arch peaks about two feet away from the ceiling and then goes back down. Beyond the three arches, a set of steel double doors leads into the Business School, where the tunnels dramatically change character...
Like two punch-drunk prizefighters who decided that enough was enough, USX and the United Steelworkers reached a tentative settlement last week of the longest steel strike in U.S. history. Steelworkers President Lynn Williams and the union's chief negotiator Jim McGeehan were all smiles as they prepared to put the agreement to a vote of the membership, but the truth was that both sides lost. The 170-day strike forced USX, formerly known as U.S. Steel, to lose $500 million in orders. Meanwhile, 22,000 union workers forfeited six months of pay. The agreement does not solve the industry...
Still, Iraqi defenders last week fought the Iranian offensive to a blood- drenched standstill. Some 60,000 Iranian troops remained dug in six miles east of the heavily fortified earthenwork defenses, known as the "wall of steel," that surround the city. The Iranian attackers were under constant bombardment by the superior air- and fire-power of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's forces. The wounded were said to number 15,000 for the Iraqis and 45,000 for the Iranians. Since Iran began its latest series of attacks on Christmas Eve, an estimated total of 30,000 combatants have perished...
...late. Reverberations of steel on linoleum echoed off Dave's mad cackle, as the spheroid struggled down the hallway, fighting for maximum velocity. Bouncing like a racquetball from hell it finally impacted, expressing its tensile strength in an ugly, permanent scar on our tutor's door...