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...efficient are they? With its pioneering continuous-slab casting process, Steel Dynamics produces flat-rolled sheet coils for $50 to $100 less per ton than its integrated competitors. Last year output per employee was $1.1 million, vs. about $254,000 at Bethlehem. "A lot of high-tech companies don't have our revenues per employee," says Fred Warner, investor-relations manager at Steel Dynamics. And analysts say the minis' market share would probably rise even faster if imports were curtailed. "The minis will expand again with higher prices," says Robert Crandall, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "Over time they...
...which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit--about $7,700--earns the equivalent of two bus tickets. The lobby of Shinsei's steel-and-glass headquarters in central Tokyo looks more like an Internet cafe than a bank, with customers lounging at flat-screen computers while making transactions and checking stock quotes. Other bank branches share space with Starbucks...
...even that scenario assumed that the Quakers would continue to play flat. With the way Penn is playing now, a win over Yale probably wouldn’t have mattered much. The Elis also might not matter much longer if the Quakers keep playing like they did last weekend...
...wanted to find the ex-Taliban deputy interior minister, all they had to do was ask the baker at Kabul's diplomatic enclave of Wazir Akbar Khan. The baker drags a flat-iron shaped nan bread from the wood-fired oven, and brushing flour from his hands, points down to a lane of high-walled villas, all with marble facades. These villas are among the city's few spoils of war, and they are grabbed by a new set of commanders every time the city changes hands. When the Taliban fled Kabul, Khaksar, elected to stay behind in his villa...
...TIME: Were B.A. and the other full-service airlines caught flat-footed by discounters like Ryanair and EasyJet? Eddington: Yes. We should have been much quicker to learn from the things they did well. Are they lucky that they don't fly in the North Atlantic? Yes, they are. Many charter operators who are close to the no-frills model and fly to the U.S. have had a tough time...