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...enabled a ton of coke to enter...
Prodded by private steelmakers feeling squeezed by such unfair competition, the European Commission this year vowed no new subsidies without permanent production cutbacks. Spain won Commission permission to spend $3.3 billion to pay for consolidation and layoffs connected with a 2.3 million-ton-capacity cut at Ansio, provided that Madrid found private financing for a new 1 million-ton mill in the Basque town of Sestao, which the government had earlier planned to build itself. Just before last week's meeting, Commission officials approved a plan to sell Eisenhuttenstadt to Italian steelmaker Riva and save existing jobs, if Bonn scaled...
...Akers and Kathryn Thornton -- are all veteran spacewalkers. Thornton, a nuclear physicist and mother of five, went on the 1992 mission that repaired the Intelsat communications satellite. On that flight, the 5-ft. 4-in. K.T., as the other astronauts call her, wasn't involved in wrestling the three-ton satellite into the shuttle's payload bay. (It eventually took three men to do that job.) This time, though, she will play a key role: installing the Hubble's corrective lenses. They will be housed in a 600-lb. box the size of a telephone booth, but in the weightlessness...
...state law, you were supposed to be 17, but because his boss was a family friend and because his family needed money, Restic was hired. Thus, while many students his age spent their time after school at the drugstore drinking sodas, Restic spent his shoveling sand out of 45-ton boxcars...
...Japanese noodle soup has a ton of MSG," Chensays. "It's in Korean food. But only the Chineserestaurants get a bad name...