Word: ores
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...disputes that most of America's old, integrated mills--the ones that make steel from iron ore in huge blast furnaces--are ailing badly. In 1998, amid a financial crisis that dampened Asia's demand for steel, exports from that region flooded the U.S. and drove prices to 20-year lows. Thirty U.S. steelmakers have filed for 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...
...visit to the firm's Kwangyang operation shows why it's a global leader. Completed in 1992, the plant is laid out like a big assembly line, with barges transporting raw materials like iron ore in one end and finished steel out the other end. Capacity in the blast furnaces matches capacity in rolling mills down the line, yielding efficiencies. The plant is highly computerized, workers aren't unionized, and POSCO doesn't bear heavy pension costs...
...Yesterday morning, Miller stood seventh after the first run of the Giant Slalom, not his best event. Even those of us who are big Bode fans figured his chances were slim for ore of any shade...
...driving his kids to school. Emily, a computer consultant who has gone back to using her maiden name, Montague, was stopped near her suburban Los Angeles home. Michael Bortin, who runs Zen Hardwood Floors, was asleep when police called to say they were outside his Victorian house in Portland, Ore. A final suspect, James Kilgore, the only fugitive in the group, vanished decades ago and remains at large...
...owning two houses--one in a warm climate, one in the Pacific Northwest--and residing part of the year in each. Kethley, 67, an administrator at the Benjamin Rose Institute in Cleveland, grew attached to her "secondary family" in the '70s, when they all lived in Eugene, Ore. Planning to retire next year, she recently bought a condo in Hawaii with space for three or four people. One friend has agreed to join her when he retires in five years. "The younger people [some 10 years younger] will come on vacations in the interim and may also join...