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.
Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols ' drama Silkwood (1983), before starring in her most financially successful release of the decade, the romantic drama Out of Africa (1985), in which she played the Danish writer Karen Blixen.