Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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They cannot take the Capitol these days. Piles of wood lie on the steps, where workmen are hammering together the viewing stands for the Inauguration. The ceremony will be held on the west side of the building this time. When the President takes his oath of office he will be lined up with the monuments to Washington and Lincoln. After he is sworn in, he will make his way up Constitution Avenue, then veer to the right up Pennsylvania toward the house that Rear Admiral Cockburn could not obliterate...
...India's greatest tourist attraction (more than 3.5 million visitors a year). It has installed pollution-monitoring gear. It has also promised to relocate the power stations and foundries and to replace coal-burning locomotives with diesels. But these are expensive, perhaps ultimately unworkable solutions. Meanwhile, workmen are repairing and replacing marble slabs as fast as they can. So far, though, the pollutants are winning the race...
Just hours before Howard K. Smith welcomed the crowd of 100 million watching on television to the debate, workmen were still installing phones and checking the electrical connections in the halls. Since the city found out five days ago it would host the debate, civic leaders have been praying that Cleveland--where Charles Brush in 1879 invented the first street light--would live up to its reputation as the electricity capital of North America...
Twenty-five miles away, at Ford Motor Co.'s Wayne, Mich., plant, workmen are busily assembling the company's new subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx. Developed at a cost of $3 billion, the new cars are the first autos that Ford has built from the ground up since the Model...
...industry is making such changes on the assembly line that Henry Ford would never recognize it. Industrial robots are taking over many tasks previously done by workmen. A spot welding unit can cost $60,000, but operating expenses run only $6 an hour. By contrast, an average assembly-line worker earns $17 per hour in wages and benefits. Programmed by computer, the robots' hooklike hands lift heavy steel parts and wield