Pipe Thread Types and Designations. Overview: Different types of screw threads have evolved for fastening, and hydraulic systems. Of special concern are plastic-. to-metal, taper/parallel threaded joints in hydraulic circuits.
The taut Mike Nichols drama Silkwood (1983) was based on the real life case of a plutonium processing plant metallurgy worker, Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who discovered corporate powers were covering up radiation leaks at Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee plant.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Pelican Brief is a 1993 legal political thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham. Music was composed by James Horner.