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Review: Trust Me by George Kennedy

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Steel, Bo Derek, Cool Hand Luke, Don Rickles, Depression, The Dirty Dozen, Have Gun Will Travel, Earthquake, Paul Newman, Wwii, Naked Gun Maverick, Oscar, Rawhide, Death on the Nile, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Trust Me, Airforce, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Patricia Neal, Carol Burnett, Airport, Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Books News
Carole Mallory

They struggled, sleeping in doorways or cars until a woman named Dolly gave them shelter, but Dolly's generosity had a price tag. Torture was commonplace in her household, and she beat George and his mother.

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Arts Lust: Unforgetting Telemann With the NYC Opera

Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Steel, Opera, New York City Opera, Baroque, Music, Telemann, New York, Orpheus, Taichman, Arts News
Allan M. Jalon

Orpheus, considered by some Telemann's masterpiece, opens its run of four performances Saturday at the Teatro del Museo del Barrio by the New York City Opera.

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The Rebirth of American Manufacturing

Yul Kwon | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Technology Clusters, Intel, Steel, Pbs, Innovation, Pittsburgh, America Revealed, Manufacturing Jobs, Made in America, American Manufacturing, Nucor Corporation, Engineers, Silicon Valley, Detroit, Business News
Yul Kwon

Like a lot of people, I had come to accept the conventional wisdom that America doesn't make anything anymore. What I discovered is that the prevailing narrative of decline and decay is overly simplistic and, in some ways, flat-out wrong.

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The U.S. Has Lost These Industries To China

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale, Douglas A. McIntyre | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Labor, Gdp, China Industry, 24/7 Wall St., Steel, International Monetary Fund, Cotton, Agriculture, Factories, Manufacturing, Coal, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: Americans are used to the U.S. being the leader, or a top-ranked nation, in many areas. But in a number of industries and business...

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Fast-Growing Manufacturing Sector Cools Off

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: General Motors, Manufacturing Sector, Steel, Manufacturing Growing, February, Cotton, Ism, Business News

WASHINGTON — Manufacturing activity cooled off a bit last month after expanding in February at the fastest pace in nearly seven years. The Inst...

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Peter S. Goodman

In American Steel Country, An Obsession With Chinese Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. China Trade, Manufacturing, Innovation, Unemployment, China, Steel, Steel Industry, American Steel, Business News

HUGER, South Carolina--Inside the dimly lit, cavernous rectangle that houses the Nucor steel mill, the workers are eager to expand their output. A mou...

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Could Halayeb's Manganese Wealth Trigger A Sudan-Egypt Conflict?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Australia, Anwar Sadat, Darfur, Steel, Canada, China, Iron, North Africa, South Africa, Iran, Metals, Islamic Legal Code, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Minerals, Ferromanganese, Al Masry Al Youm, British Colonial Powers, Sinai, Hosni Mubarak, Ottawa, Aluminum, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, Brazil, Omar Hassan Al Bashir, Port Sudan, Khartoum, Manganese, Asharq Al-Awsat, Cairo, Mining, India, Sudan, Christian, Nile Basin, International Petroleum Company, Halayeb, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Egypt and Sudan almost came to blows 17 years ago over the Halayeb region, said to be rich in manganese. Since then, the Sudanese government has called for a negotiated settlement of the dispute.

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Iron Ore Falls Into the Crude Oil Trading Pit

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barclays, Steel, Goldman Sachs, European Commission, Margan Stanley, Iron Ore Miners, Media, Iron Ore, World, Oil, Eurofer Acea, China, Jpmorgan, Financial TImes, New York Times, New York TimesCredit Suisse, Saudi Arabia, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Steel makes up 95 percent of the world's metal fabrication and iron ore, of course, is the core component of steel making. Its effect on pricing and employment portends to be dramatic.

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The Gift America Needs Most: Manufacturing

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harley-Davidson, Barbie, Manufacturing Strategy, Steel, Derivatives, Erector Set, Manufacturing, Wall Street Journal, Santa, Unemployment, General Motors, Wall Street, Great Recession, Furlough, New York Times, Monopoly, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

The gift this country needs most this holiday season is an economy built on a solid foundation, one that will provide middle class, family-supporting jobs now and into the future.

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How Beijing Cleans Its Air (and Fakes It Too)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smog, Steel, Climate Change, Beijing, China, Traffic Reduction, Global Warming, Olympics, Natural Gas, Green News
Alex Pasternack

Did a New York Times article about improvements to air quality in Beijing bear echoes of the Chinese state-run media?

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Steel: Important To Us But Not Important To Us

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Terrorism, Security, Steel, Business News
Dave Johnson

Steel is the core component of the bridges, buildings, appliances, cars, etc. that we build. But now much of that steel comes from other countries.

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New Report: Pittsburgh --The Rest of the Story

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Pittsburgh, Steel, Post-Industrial Age, Rust Belt, University of Pittsburgh, Campaign for America's Future, Pittsburgh in Transition, Business News
Dave Johnson

Pittsburgh, known as "Steel City," was a center of the Rust Belt -- so-called because so much of our manufacturing, once America's economic powerhouse, has been outsourced.

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Seize the Net: Save the Net

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cybersecurity, Commerce Department, Internet, Steel, Harry Truman, President Obama, Intenet, National Security, Computers, Politics News
Leslie Harris

Earlier this week, two Senators introduced a bill that gives the President the power to seize and shut down the Internet or any other "critical infrastructure " in the "interest of national security."

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Pittsburgh Finds New Life After Steel

New York Times | David Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pittsburgh Steel, Pittsburgh, Steel, Business News

PITTSBURGH -- This is what life in one American city looks like after an industrial collapse: Unemployment is 5.5 percent, far below the national ave...

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Wisconsin Diary: My Grandparents Think McCain's Too Old

Dan Treul | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Treul

In a northern Midwestern town, at my cousin's graduation, I got a glimpse of something remarkable, something that may signal yet more troublesome news to the already troubled regiment of McCain campaign strategists.

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Steel Prices Nearly Doubled In Past Year

Financial Times | Chris Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Price of Steel, Steel Prices, Steel, Commodity Prices, Business News

Steel prices have almost doubled in the past year as steelmakers have passed big increases in the costs of iron ore and coking coal on to consumers. ...

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