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| | Reinventing the Mill - New York Times |
 | | Roberts, a 68-year-old retiree from the Bethlehem Steel plant in Steelton, Pa., who lost his health care coverage and a third of his pension as the company sank into bankruptcy. |
 | | In 1980 steel companies employed about 400,000 American workers and it took about nine hours of labor to produce a ton of steel; by last year, the work force had withered to some 120,000 workers but it took each of them only about two hours to make a ton of steel. |
 | | By 2002, the payroll at Bethlehem, the former titan whose steel was used to build the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building and the Holland Tunnel, had fallen to 12,000 workers supporting around 130,000 retirees and dependents. |
| www.nytimes.com /2005/10/22/business/22steel.html?ex=1287633600&en=3c63c5bf6bdb85d6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (786 words) |
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