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...want to have a strong domestic steel industry and be able to rebuild America's infrastructure? Do we want the next World Trade Center to be built with American steel...
...Steel is flexing its muscle in Washington again. They want consolidation, a go-ahead from trustbusters to merge ailing giants U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel along with anyone else who cares to join. They want government limits on imports of the cheaper foreign-made steel that's pushing them toward bankruptcy (Bethlehem already arrived last month) and tariffs on the steel that does get imported. They want the government to assume some $13 billion in pension and health-care costs that steelmakers promised retirees long ago, when there were still fewer of them than active workers - the decline...
...rules were enforced capriciously, sometimes ferociously, by religious police from the Orwellian-named Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Ministry thugs wielding lengths of steel cable would beat women in the street for infractions like wearing white socks. "If women are going outside with fashionable, ornamental, tight and charming clothes," an early decree from the ministry warned, they "should never expect to go to heaven...
...plan" to develop North Korea into a superpower. According to the official press, North Koreans are so inspired by Ranam's factory that they are planning "uninterrupted miracles and feats in all fields." It sounds a lot like Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, in which Chinese peasants made steel in their backyards and claimed to grow supersized cabbages; that campaign led to economic collapse and mass starvation. How times have changed: the big miracle most Koreans hope for these days is a chance to escape across the border?to prospering China...
...official shelter's walls, ceiling and floors are made of steel-reinforced concrete, the armored door is 30 cm thick, there's a small escape hatch with its own metal door and double-latch lock, and the shelter comes with two filtration devices: one designed to screen out biological and chemical substances and another to suck in fresh...