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Steel producers argue that job losses from higher U.S. steel prices would be minimal. But in a study commissioned by a steel users group, economists Laura Baughman and Joseph Francois concluded that if tariffs rose to 20.7% (a weighted-average figure), the resulting higher steel prices would cost 74,500 jobs in the wider U.S. economy. The number of steel-producing jobs that would be saved: 8,900--at a cost of $451,509 for each protected steelmaking job. Independent analysts agree that the net job loss could number in the tens of thousands. "No matter what Bush decides...
...improving worker efficiency, too many U.S. mills and their unions have used artificially high steel prices as an invitation to pocket more in profits, pay and benefits than their competitors abroad--or their customers at home--have done. "Between 1972 and 1981, when import controls were severe, steel wages rose 179% while productivity declined," Goodrich and Gary Hufbauer, also an economist with the Institute for International Economics, wrote in a policy brief last month...
...legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) stretches out in his bath of rose petals, Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) runs her hands slowly over his face. Gradually, as his eyes close, she bends her head forward, closes her bared teeth around his neck and takes a big, juicy bite...
...Taylor rose through the paper’s ranks, becoming business manager, treasurer, and then general manager...
Katherine D. Rose ’02, who received the video as a stocking-stuffer from her brother, agrees that the level of expertise expected of the viewer is unreasonable. What she and the others found most annoying, however, were the homages to Henson himself that are included between shots of dancing. These self-indulgent nuggets of vanity revolve around two themes: Henson’s contribution to the dance world through his revolutionary techniques and his devotion to his art. “The video emphasized his prettiness,” Lazar says. “It?...