Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

* David Steel 1976 – 1988

This was converted to a public limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

" The European Steel Unions and the Steel Crisis, 1974-84: A Study in the Demise of Traditional Unionism ," British Journal of Political Science, Apr 1988, Vol.

* British Steel Corporation, 1988 Competition Commission report

Pre-dating Ninja Tune is the radio show Solid Steel, which Coldcut set up in 1988.

The group released the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single " Don't Believe the Hype " in addition to " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ".

Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.

Pacesetter Steel became the first company to move into the park in 1988.

By 1914, the mine was sold to the Union Coal and Coke Company and later to Bethlehem Steel which continued to extract coal until 1988, when the main conveyor caught fire.

* Steel, Tom ( 1988 ) The Life and Death of St. Kilda, London, Fontana ISBN 0-00-637340-2

Six Bonanza novels have been published: Bonanza: One Man With Courage by Thomas Thompson ( 1966 ); The Ponderosa Spirit by Stephen Calder ( 1988 ); The Ponderosa Empire by Stephen Calder ( 1991 ); Bonanza: High Steel Hazard by Stephen Calder ( 1993 ); Bonanza: Felling of the Sons by Monette B. Reinhold ( 2005 ), and Bonanza: Mystic Fire by Monette B. Reinhard ( 2009 ).

David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC ( born 31 March 1938 ) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 until its merger with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats.

Steel was convinced the answer to these difficulties was a single party with a single leader, and was the chief proponent of the 1988 merger between the Liberals and the SDP.

Additional supplements included the Hand to Hand Combat System ( 1988 ), World War 2 Weapon Data Supplement ( 1988 ), Wild West Weapon Data Supplement ( 1989 ), Civilian Weapon Data Supplement ( 1987 ), Living Steel Power Armour Sourcebook ( 1991 ), Advanced Damage Tables ( 1987 ) and High Tech Weapon Data Supplement ( 1987 ) amongst others.

Dofasco owned and operated a number of subsidiaries, including National Steel Car, a Hamilton-based railway freight car manufacturer, from 1962 to 1994, and Algoma Steel, from 1988 to 1991, until union and financial difficulties ultimately forced Dofasco to divest the company.

* Steel Thunder 1988

Its original name was the U. S. Steel Building for many years before it was changed to USX Tower in 1988.

In the 1988 animated series Superman, the Man of Steel mentions that his father Jor-El was the creator of the Phantom Zone, which holds General Zod and his two Kryptonian companions.

* The Stainless Steel booster deck ( 2005 ) adds Super Bunnies, which are more powerful but incur additional consequences if they are removed from play.

Steel weapons and tools were nearly the same weight as those of bronze, but stronger.

Armor piercing shell of the APBC 1 Light weight ballistic cap 2 Steel alloy piercing shell 3 Desensitized bursting explosive charge | charge ( trinitrotoluene | TNT, Picric acid | Trinitrophenol, RDX ...) 4 fuse ( explosives ) | Fuse ( set with delay to explode inside the target ) 5 Bourrelet ( front ) and driving band ( rear )

* Steel is a mixture of Iron and between 0. 3 % to 1. 7 % Carbon by weight.

Steel also supplanted wrought iron when it became readily available in the latter half of the 19th century, providing great savings when compared with iron in cost and weight.

In 1940, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works produced 50 sets of hinged homogeneous armor for the BT-7M, which increased the weight of the test tank to 18 tons.

Steel had the highest available strength for its weight.

Steel sleepers are lighter in weight than concrete and able to stack in compact bundles unlike timber.

Construction retained the traditional split between chassis and body, which facilitated the provision of special bodied versions though in practice the overwhelming majority of cars were delivered with the standard steel body shell, produced by Pressed Steel, and employing light weight aluminium based alloy for the doors, bonnet / hood and boot / trunk lid.

Steel backplates are commonly used when the buoyancy of the diver ’ s other equipment ( primarily cylinders and exposure protection ) would require them to wear a weightbelt, as the negative buoyancy of the steel plate can replace some of this weight.

: Steel structures mounting the level weight rope pulleys and rope separators.

At long and a weight of, the cast steel locomotive bed plate made by General Steel Castings was the largest single-piece casting ever made for a locomotive.

The weight of steel per square foot per inch of thickness is 41. 82lb ( 18. 96kg ), this is known as the Manufacturers ' Standard Gage for Sheet Steel.

In " Little Lost Robot " Susan Calvin considers modifying the Laws to be a terrible idea, although possible, while centuries later Dr. Gerrigel in The Caves of Steel believes it to be impossible.

The idea of counterexplosion ( kontrvzryv in Russian ) in armour was first proposed by the Scientific Research Institute of Steel ( NII Stali ) in 1949 in the USSR by academician Bogdan Vjacheslavovich Voitsekhovsky ( 1922 – 99 ).

If this idea had been used, then The Man of Steel would have marked the return of the " Original Super-Hero ", as Kal-L ( now switched to Kal-El ) begins his life on the post-Crisis Earth, which is similar to his old life, but with distinct differences.

The original idea for the story was from an episode of The United States Steel Hour named " Fearful Decision " that aired in 1954.

The idea of Duncan originally being a diving horse was inspired by an actual diving horse that used to jump into a pool at Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century ; a postcard showing this horse was used as a reference by the animators for the scenes featuring the diving.

The idea of grilling was first suggested by Charles F. Steel, a supervisor at the National Bank Note Company, with correspondence on the subject dating from 1865.

Schuman had stated that the idea of a European Coal and Steel Community dated from before he attended university.

Five FAC's went to NKP in January to test the idea of working the Steel Tiger portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and many more came there TDY during the following months.