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...What's more, the vehicle's aluminum armor does not vaporize, incinerate or form a fireball. The armor is not "twice as thick" as the M113's-it measures 1 in., in contrast to 1¾ in. for the M113. Antitank rockets can penetrate steel and aluminum, but aluminum has no additional casualty-producing effect...
...country's per capita output of goods and services has sunk to a level about 15% below where it was in 1978. Faced with a drop in oil revenues this year of at least $4 billion, Venezuela has shelved plans for construction of a new railroad, a steel mill and several highways. With an election coming in December, the government is already getting edgy about political unrest. Three journalists were jailed two weeks ago for criticizing the President...
...women who labor at National Steel's Weirton division in West Virginia produce some of the finest steel and tin plate in the world, about $1 billion worth annually. Even so, the plant lost $50 million in 1982. A year ago, when National announced it would stop investing capital in the plant, Weirton employees feared that management would drastically shrink the operation or shut it down altogether...
...have to deal with the extravagant military budget required by Reagan's friends in the military-industrial complex and rightist religious sects. His fiscal albatross was the heavy burden on the government's social programs, increased by the gradual failure of large Swedish industries such as shipbuilding, steel and iron one mining. The LO, the Swedish equivalent of the APL-CIO, complained fiercely even at the unemployment rise from 2 to 4 percent. The coalition tried to hold the brakes on social spending, but government service still grew to 65 percent of the GNP. At the same time, the budget...
...exception was Volkswagen's Rabbit, introduced to replace the Beetle in 1980. Crafted by Karmann, 12,114 of the ragtop Rabbits were sold in 1981 (price: $10,000) at a handsome profit. In addition, small customizing companies in states like Florida, California and Michigan have been cutting the steel tops off cars since the late '70s and turning them into convertibles for 20,000 to 25,000 fanatical owners a year...