21.   APC is studying the construction of a cement plant and investments in the steel industry.

22.   At the summit the Bush administration is also likely to come under fire from Europeans for its decision to protect the U.S. steel industry against foreign imports.

23.   Automation-linked productivity gains have also helped the once ailing U.S. steel industry.

24.   Before World War II, Pittsburgh was known as the Smoky City because of pollution from the steel industry.

25.   A bipartisan group of members of Congress from steel-producing states introduced new legislation to protect the American steel industry.

26.   A few years later, the steel industry tipped into recession.

27.   A glut of steel is hurting the steel industry and slackening demand for construction and farm equipment is hurting companies like Deere and Caterpillar.

28.   A thriving steel industry no longer exists.

29.   After the mine closures, most former miners were absorbed into the steel industry, the nascent service industry and a sizeable minority into the professions.

30.   All these nations say that the tariffs, introduced by the Bush administration in March to help the depressed U.S. steel industry, flout global trade rules.