71.   Kobe Steel was again making all sizes of steel wire rods, which are used for spring valves and other precision auto components.

72.   Most put a single steel rod through one cheek.

73.   Shattered glass was strewn in the streets and slabs of cement connected to steel rods dangled off sides of buildings.

74.   Some officials believe the builder did not use proper anti-corrosive chemicals to protect the steel rods.

75.   Sparks flew from blow torches cutting twisted steel rods.

76.   The blast Tuesday at a traffic inspection post in Jiangxi province occurred as inspectors were probing the load of coal with steel rods, Xinhua said.

77.   The buildings had been made with substandard steel rods, and authorities found crumpled up vegetable oil cans had been used in place of bricks.

78.   The five workers then inserted a steel rod to detect a leak reported two days earlier in a Prudential Insurance Co. of America building, authorities said.

79.   The inmates softened the concrete jail floor with urine then began digging through it and the underlying dirt with steel rods, the official said.

80.   The steel rods Acindar uses are used in auto manufacturing and construction.