Word: ton
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...trigger price system will be set 12% higher than the average March level of $358.31 a ton. In addition, a new "antisurge provision" requires a Commerce Department review whenever imports exceed 13.7% of steel consumption in the U.S. at any time that the domestic industry is running below 87% of capacity. After the announcement, U.S. Steel dropped its case against the European producers...
...marijuana will be pulverized and blown into the plant's furnaces, which now burn either natural gas or oil. Company officials figure that each ton of pot equals 2.7 bbl. of oil and will produce 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity-only a tiny fraction of the plant's daily output, so pot power will not significantly reduce customers' bills. Officials also believe that smoke from the generator's 350-ft. stack will not turn on passersby. But just to be sure, they plan to conduct test burns. Until then, the Miami News last week advised...
...resolved, and final negotiations proceeded, it would take the U.S. 20 years and $6 billion to destroy our 150,000 ton inventory...
...with good reason. At 3:01 a.m., as technicians gave up trying to plug the leak and began climbing from the silo, the mixture of fuel and oxygen exploded. Orange flames and smoke spewed out, lighting up the sky over Damascus. The blast blew off a 750-ton concrete cover. One worker was killed; 21 others were hurt...
...experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have switched on if the boat had sunk. Smugglers would find the Polymer III especially attractive because of its speed (22 knots), 3,000-mile cruising range and six-ton cargo capacity...