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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>fascinating how well
managed this guy is -- from a top down stand point. take the money
and run</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>R</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:27
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Bush shakes down
steel industry as he prepares to screw it</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Bush Raises Steel Money Before Tariff Decision<BR>By Randall
Mikkelsen<BR><BR>PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites)
picked up <BR>$850,000 in campaign contributions in the heart of America's
steel <BR>industry on Tuesday even as he prepared to lift tariffs that have
<BR>been helping the steelmakers.<BR><BR>Supporters of the tariffs lodged a
last-ditch effort to keep the <BR>protections in place. Bush heard arguments
from Pennsylvania <BR>Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record)
and U.S. <BR>Steel Corp. Chairman Tom Usher, a sponsor of the campaign
fund-raiser <BR>which the Bush re-election campaign said had been planned long
before <BR>the steel decision became imminent.<BR><BR>Scores of steelworkers
demonstrated near the Pittsburgh site of Bush's
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