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...market share illegally. USSK is being investigated by the European Commission for allegedly dumping hot-rolled coil at prices 30% below the domestic Slovak price in the first seven months of last year. "What we see in Europe is caused by what is happening in the United States," John Goodish, USSK's chief, recently told a Slovak business weekly. "I think it's retaliation against U.S. Steel...
...neatly laundered and sharply pressed pair of flannel cricket trousers, white buckskin shoes, white moleskin hacking jacket with a red carnation in the lapel, silk shirt and purple tweed tie. In your summery stylish regalia, and really looking nice poise on the sixth floor room balcony of a goodish old fashioned downtown hotel. When everyone is suitably assembled to watch you jump off to break your head, commence peeing. If no one tries to rush the hell out of the way of your pissing all over them, you have reached...
...perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the runway, its engines spouting black smoke. From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing. As the bomber broke ground, it listed slightly from the dragging weight...
...reappearing themes run through his Journal: insomnia and work, habits he never shook off. "Last night I had what I call a goodish night for me. 12.30 a. m. to about 2.55 a. m. Then about 3.15 a. m. to 5.45 a. m. Then a few short snoozes, totalling perhaps 40 minutes at the very most. In all 5½ hours." In 1926 he "contracted" with himself to write 365,000 words during the year-an average of 1,000 words a day-fulfilled the contract by December 20. Whenever his ideas gave out he would go for an "idea...
...pointed out that seven porters lost their lives in the unsuccessful attempt of 1922 and that Mallory and Irvine lost their lives this year, without the prospect of any material gain for either the climbers or the human race, he answered with a question: "Isn't it a goodish thing to run some risks, undergo some hardships for an ideal divorced from sordid considerations...