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Hockey players are doing everything that other athletes do and more, but we're doing it on ice. We've got to be able to avoid body contact like basketball and football players, and we've got to be able to handle this puck with our sticks?while we're moving on eight-inch steel blades. Hockey uses every single muscle in the body, without exception.

Hockey is the original extreme sport. These guys are flying down the ice on steel blades going 30 mph and slapping pucks 100 mph.

He's filthy. His ball explodes on you. His curve ball has gotten better and better every season. He's lights-out and he has absolute nerves of steel on the mound. I've never see him lose his composure once.

He could put together a pile of cement and steel beams, knowing you would look at it at a certain angle and you would think it was twice as big as it really was.

Just under 30 percent of the S&P 500 report results this week. Among the different industry groups, we'll get a heavy dose of economically sensitive names, including several from the oil and gas, rail, coal and steel industries.

It broke some large steel chains and released 100 tons of harvest fish into the bay to the benefit of the local anglers.

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

I thought the driver must have been unconscious and that we certainly were going to die. You have to remember on these bobsleds, there's no suspension and it's a steel frame mounted to a steel axle. When you start approaching speeds of 90 mph you can feel every vibration. It's like some someone pushes a piano on you and pushes you to the bottom of the sled. You go up to the top and you see your buddies doing it over and over again, so you want to continue to do it. As you do it, it gets less scary and more exciting and then you start searching for the speed.

I think we have shown that we are a good team and we have threatened a result like that for some time now. Stuart McLaren coming into the side added that extra bit of steel and maturity and I think we have benefited from that.

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

I went into the first surgery where they cut me from ear to ear and they cut my face down and they took out all the fractured egg-shelled bones and put in steel plates.

I think steel is probably something of the past in this country today. I don't think you can sustain the steel industry unless we take this action.

KUKA Robotics' stainless steel robots have been working in many applications & industries in Europe and we are pleased to be able to offer our North American customers this option as well. Food manufacturing in particular requires extremely stringent sterility standards and stainless steel is the optimum material to meet these requirements.

Iron ore and steel stocks were supposed to be struggling, but they brought us some of our best returns in the quarter.

Iron is full of impurities that weaken it: through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion.

Iron City beer is the last beer served in steel cans.

Our philosophy is if it's been done before, we'd better do it better. We think people will be hooked when they see things like the six-sided ring, the Six Sides of Steel matches and Ultimate X matches. (Our guys) can do things you've never seen.

Our first shipment after Katrina was steel that was in one of our terminals. It arrived before Katrina, and they barged to the Hyundai plant in Alabama less than two weeks after Katrina.

Our first priority is to get it out of the channel, get it out of river, we're going to pull it up in this grassy area right here. Since it is the last bridge in the world built with this design, this steel and wood combination, we feel like if we can save a little of it, would be that much.

Our cost structure is solid, and demand for high-quality sheet steel is good. We're in the process of breaking out of the industry's usual boom and bust cycle.

Our view is that the steel price has bottomed for now and what you're seeing at the moment is very strong demand for steel.

Plastics are being used instead of copper tube, aluminum is replacing copper conductors, steel/tin, plastics and glass are being used instead of aluminum packaging and plastics and different types of coated steel are being used instead of galvanized steel.

Our low steel is at 58 eight feet high,

Surging delivery prices of our steel products helped us more than offset the adverse impact of rising procurement costs.

Steel costs are expected to increase another 20 percent this month alone.

Steel companies need cash to operate. Steel prices fluctuate and steel companies need cash to manage the ups and downs of the historically cyclical market. Raiding cash during good times is short sighted and counter to the long-term interest of the company.

Steel and metal companies are on a long-term rising trend. Demand will continue to increase.

Steel and banks had risen without a recess recently. That's apparently overdone.

Steel stocks are cheaply valued, they're cyclical, they're very well known for their capital destruction during downturns. Now instead of increasing capacity, they're buying capacity or buying competitors.

Steel markets are at an inflection point and we forecast a bounce in demand.

Steel makers have attractive dividend yields and investors have to own the stock by the end of March in order to be able to collect the dividend.

Steel is forged by fire and then beaten. That's what it's been like the past year. It has been embarrassing and humiliating, but it's behind me.

Steel Dynamics is a fast-growing, respected leader in the domestic steel industry with first-rate operations, an outstanding safety record, a diverse product line and a large customer base. This is the best fit for our organization and is the best outcome to secure the long-term success of Roanoke Electric Steel.

Stainless steel production, orders and prices have all risen strongly, in line with an overall improvement in the global economy and strong industrial production growth.

Local fund investors bid up steel stocks, as they had a lot of idle money after unloading technology stocks.

It didn't bother them -- they live way out in the country, man. My dad couldn't believe I got paid $500 to eat it. He works at the steel mill back home. He makes that in a week.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

The American steel industry faces a turning point. We believe the actions the president is taking today can restore the strength and profitability of this very important American industry.

Most of the benthic macroalgae were gone, giving reefs in the lower Keys a clean appearance not seen in years. Also missing were many elkhorn corals, sponges and urchins -- broken or swept away by the raw power of a storm surge that bent 18-inch steel I-beams.

We are aware that our trade rows with other countries are expected to grow with the rapid growth of China's steel exports. We hope to resolve disputes through negotiations.

We really attempted it in a full-force Flaming Lips behemoth production style. We recorded 100 tracks of our beloved pedal steel guitar and 100 guitar overdubs for the music, and for the vocals we stacked all these crazy harmonies. We wanted to add different layers that people might expect from us, but we tried hard not to change the fundamental nature of the song.

You always have the problem of dual-use in every new technology. Steel can be used to make sewing needles or spears.

When you're talking about cars or washing machines or whatever, those people are buying steel a year forward or more.

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

We had originally aimed to complete the latest inventory adjustments for common-grade steel by the end of March, but we now think we need to extend de-stocking efforts in the first quarter (to June).

Typically you'll get an all new kitchen with cherry cabinets and granite counter-tops. Stainless steel appliances are a big seller right now.

Typically in a developing economy, the demand for steel goes up exponentially.

Unlike other contracts, steel products vary greatly in category, quality and origin. No other country except India operates such contracts, and we don't know whether it works well.

We haven't complained about it...As far as steel prices, raw material prices are concerned, we had that under control in 2005 and I expect that we will manage to have a reasonable development in 2006.

The president ... has been very clear that he will not tolerate unfair trade in the steel industry, and I'm sure he will want to raise that,

We are seeing a better year ahead in terms of prices ... the forecast for stainless steel in 2006 is better and could boost demand for ferrochrome starting in the second quarter.

The pins allow rotation of the bridge at the bearing areas. The need for rotation is mainly derived from the fact that steel expands and contracts with temperature variations. When the temperature warms, the bridge naturally expands, or lengthens longitudinally, and unless it's allowed to do so, undesired stresses are introduced to the structure.

The overcapacity problem has provided a very good opportunity to promote restructuring in the steel industry.

The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

Where else can you get a steel sword, put on a mask and then try and kill somebody. And it's all perfectly sanctioned.

We pounded on the drill steel and received no response. We'll do same.

We have made excellent progress in the structural steel business since we began shipping wide-flange beams in 2002. Recent strength in non-residential construction has led to a record order backlog at Columbia City and has resulted in current production and shipping rates of nearly one million tons per year.

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

The prospects for the steel industry are quite positive, supported by strong demand.

Trading volume is increasing at a faster pace than in the previous few sessions. Investors are locking in profits but demand for bargain-hunting is also there, particularly in steel stocks.

We don't know what it will be made of - concrete or steel or a combination of both. Steel costs right now are so high. And, maintenance costs over time can be higher with steel. It certainly won't be $50 million.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

When the (Phoenix) steel company closed 30 years ago, no one realized in 10 years, we would all be jobless and our downtown would be in ruins.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

The explosion did displace manhole covers two round steel ones and it also displaced a concrete cover as well.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And I'm gonna say it right now and get it through your head... BOTH OF YA (Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff) THIS THANG WILL NEVER BE OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

Steel is prince or pauper.

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

We built it with three straight months of work and 20,000 pounds of steel from a South Jersey rail yard.

With a building of this kind, because it's masonry, it is more susceptible to weather than maybe a steel frame building, because steel is not as affected by rain and cold in same way that rock and concrete is,

We liked that look, but when the steel plates came to the house, they were hot-rolled steel, so they have a sort of blue quality. We love the blue, so now we're going about the process of finding ways to protect and keep the color the way it is.

Those who seek to know God must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile.

There are several factors weighing on the dollar, among them the weak retail sales data and the feeling that Alan Greenspan was backtracking from his recent optimism on the U.S. economy. Greenspan's mention of the U.S. current account deficit has focused market attention on the problems associated with a strong dollar policy, particularly given the recent imposition of tariffs on U.S. steel imports.

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.

What's important for investors to realize about the Dow is it's not just steel stocks and industrial-related stocks. There are growth stocks. There are financial, entertainment and industrial stocks. So when one sector isn't doing well, another sector may be doing well. And that's exactly what's propelling the Dow.

Expect steel prices to go up by $30 or $35 (US) imminently.

We're talking about some big global players here, so that's what driving the speculation behind the rest of the sector. Steel stocks have been gaining a small amount of momentum back after a poor run the past few months, and this is the kind of thing that could prompt some managers to have another look.

We're talking about consolidation. How many companies will be involved, I don't know. We're in talks with more than one integrated steel company. Our talks with National are just further down the pike.

The government should have learned its lesson from steel tariffs -- they were a big disaster. I don't think these protectionist measures will be passed.

The government realized early last year that the cooling of the real estate market had led to less investment in upstream products such as steel and cement.

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund.

There is no reason at all to believe either that she is a legal conservative or -- and more importantly -- that she has the spine and steel necessary to resist the pressures that constantly bend the American legal system toward the left.

There is no space for steel prices to drop further.

This vote demonstrates that the AEIF stands united in its determination to secure an equitable labor agreement with AK Steel. The executive committee will continue negotiating with AK Steel to achieve that result.

What's already happening in the pulp-and-paper sector is very quickly about to happen in the steel sector. The next sector will be the chemical sector.

You have to get yourself a good notary, have nerves of steel and infinite patience.

This year, it's 45 percent versus 55 percent on the steel side. In some years, it's 50-50.

With fuel costs going up, and the pipe, steel and concrete -- everything we use -- going up so badly, we're going to have to pick and choose what we can do as far as maintenance and water quality projects.

We got our start at this little club back in Nashville at this place called the Fiddle and Steel Guitar Bar on Mondays and Tuesdays. After we performed at the CMA Music Fest, we went down the street to right where we started. Those people were freaked out! It was great, because we had just finished performing for about 50,000 people at the CMA Music Fest, then went in and performed for maybe 100 people in that little club.

We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street.