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...scared for every other soul at that range who might soon cease to exist. I looked once more at Volokh, who gave me a friendly look of “hurry the hell up.” So, I turned back to the target, cut my mini-drama short and grasped for the trigger. BANG! My hand jumped. My heart raced. The bullet sailed about two feet over the upper left corner of the target. I had fired my first shot! Now, I just had to hit my first target...
...bankruptcy protection in the past five years, including icons such as LTV and Bethlehem Steel. With a strong dollar still favoring imports and a global recession crimping demand, the U.S. firms staying afloat say their position is precarious. The most efficient and profitable American steelmakers--the so-called mini-mills that refine steel from scrap metal--stand to pick up market share from the dying dinosaurs. But even the mini-mills are now clamoring for trade protection...
...there's a bright spot in this picture, it can be found at America's mini-mills, which are investing in new technologies, keeping costs low, rewarding workers for productivity, boosting quality and moving into new lines of business. They now account for nearly half of U.S. steel output, up from 15% in 1970. Led by Nucor, based in Charlotte, N.C., and Steel Dynamics, based in Fort Wayne, Ind., the minis run mostly nonunion shops and forge steel with less energy and labor than their integrated counterparts...
Louie’s Superette is technically a mini-mart/convenience store, yes, but it was excluded from this survey because it’s really only good for buying things that come in packs of six or cases...
...should be fixed? Yes. Is it odd that 90 percent of Harvard students graduate with honors? Yes, maybe giving automatic “honors” status to all thesis writers obscures the playing field. But does any of this constitute mass grade inflation that is deserving of a mini-media circus? Definitely...