51.   U.S. Trade Rep. Mickey Kantor is backing the U.S. beef industry in pressing Europe to lift the ban.

52.   A flood of cut-price European Union beef is wreaking havoc with the beef industry in South Africa and neighboring countries, EU and African parliament members said Wednesday.

53.   Australian farmers are running out of cows because demand has risen sharply after livestock diseases crippled the European beef industry, officials said Thursday.

54.   Beefing up its beef industry, Brazil eyes new markets.

55.   Britain said Friday the European Union was willing to share the costs caused by the mad cow disease and its disastrous impact on the British beef industry.

56.   British beef industry relieved by lifting of export ban.

57.   British beef industry representatives said late February that few meat companies would be resuming beef exports immediately because they are more concerned with cementing gains in the domestic market.

58.   British beef industry still feeling under siege.

59.   But the embattled beef industry got a boost when the hamburger chain Wimpy said it would put British beef back on the menus in a few days.

60.   But, of course, the powerful beef industry knows how to deal with a troublemaker like Kim.