"U. S. Steel Group's second quarter 2000
operating results improved over the same
quarter last year, even though problems
related to a two-week unplanned blast
furnace outage at Fairfield Works and
increased natural gas prices combined to
limit our improved performance. The blast
furnace problem has been corrected and will
not impact third quarter earnings. However,
high natural gas prices are expected to
persist for some time."

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-- spider (spider0@usa.net), July 21, 2000

Answers

Watch for a lot more of these unplanned slowdowns.

-- JackW (jpayne@webtv.net), July 21, 2000.