41.   Korean steel makers are closing the gap in quality and prices with their Japanese competitors.

42.   Korean steel makers, already low-cost producers in Asia of many kinds of steel, are closing the gap in quality with their big Japanese competitors.

43.   LaBow says the union wants to sign the same agreement with his company that it now holds with other major steel makers.

44.   Larkins also finds bargains among downtrodden cyclical stocks, such as those of steel maker Nucor and aircraft maker Boeing.

45.   Leading the gradual, daily price rises are mid-size companies, including pharmaceutical companies, refineries and steel makers, that have attracted foreign investor interest.

46.   Lower interest rates help companies such as banks and steel makers that are big borrowers.

47.   Maruta also recommended shares of steel makers, which pay high dividends relative to most Japanese companies.

48.   Nearly every major steel maker in America is pushing the Bush administration for quotas and tariffs on imported steel.

49.   NUCOR CORP., Charlotte, N.C., a steel products maker, plans to build a steel fastener plant in Conway, Ark.

50.   NKK Corp., a major Japanese steel maker, will resume operation of an idle furnace in Hiroshima, southern Japan, during the year that starts in April.