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Black also delivers on I'll Take Texas, a fiddle-and-steel guitar paean to his home state, and on Tuckered Out, a rollicking tribute to country stars that sneaks the names of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and others into the verses: "I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon," Black sings and slyly inserts his own name into the musical testimonial. Even as he frets about time running out, you know his time has come...
Wills also offered his services to people who fell behind on their car payments -- not an unusual situation in the economically depressed steel towns of Bucks County. His customers included a computer-software manufacturer, hairdressers, truck drivers, restaurant workers, anybody. One Wills crony, Albert Falls, would hang out at a local diner, the Golden Dawn, spreading the word that customers could ditch their cars in the parking lots of shopping malls -- after first placing $200 under the floor mat. The car owners were asked to wait two weeks before reporting the car stolen and collecting the insurance. By then...
...future of Big Steel may ultimately rest on how well the major firms can compete with the homegrown and highly profitable minimills. The big companies "have done a lot, but they still spend far too much, and their labor is far too expensive," says Robert Crandall, a Brookings Institution economist. "Their most sensible strategy would be to gradually phase down their operations and focus on their best plants." While the giant steelmakers lost a battle to their foreign rivals last week, the real war is shaping up as an all-American struggle...
...chagrin of big U.S. steel companies, the U.S. International Trade Commission cleared foreign steel firms of most of the pending charges that they had engaged in unfair trade practices. As a result, most of the stiff tariffs on foreign steel imposed last month by the Commerce Department will be rescinded...
...Steel Tariffs Removed...