The flat carbon steel Europe division saw average steel selling prices down by about 14%, whereas steel shipments slumped 9% to 7.14 million tons.

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The company, which focuses mainly on processing steel for use in the enterprise, saw its stock move up nearly 4% after hours.

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The late 1990s saw a new outpouring of cheap steel from elsewhere around the globe.

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Tommy Franks with a piece of steel recovered from the Trade Towers, she saw this great soldier's eyes well up with tears.

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The world got rich by inventing cheap steel, electric lights, marine insurance, reinforced concrete, coffee shops, saw mills, newspapers, automatic looms, cheap paper, modern universities, the transistor, cheap porcelain, corporations, rolling mills, liberation for women, railways.

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Probably the last thing plant operator Ouchi Hisashi saw before he passed out was a blue flash in the concentration of uranium he was mixing in a steel vat.

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