It would take cold, hard steel, made from hot molten iron.
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It feeds through a stylus that is "as hard as steel, " says Mark Seetin of the U.S. Apple Association.
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And one day, a small group of churches on the South Side of Chicago answered, offering me work with people in neighborhoods hit hard by steel mills that were shutting down and communities where jobs were dying away.
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He justified this on the grounds that America's hard-pressed steel industry needed protection from dumping and time to restructure.
And they have even turned up in a type of hard, specialised steel made by Sandvik, a Swedish engineering firm.
Germany's SGL Carbon (6, SGG) has fallen 33% since May and has yet to recover as it supplies primarily the hard-hit steel and semiconductor industries with carbon and graphite products, which include electrodes, laboratory components and furnace linings.
That has hit exporters like British Steel particularly hard: most of its plants are in Britain, but much of its sales are in overseas markets.
Metal-forming technologies are used to shape hard industrial metals like steel, iron and aluminum into the components that are needed to make everything from computers and iPads to cars and trucks.
To make the Mach3, Gillette has found a way to bond diamond-hard carbon to slivers of steel.
In Jamshedpur men in thick denim shirts and hard hats watch as molten steel is poured from a gigantic ladle.
The 10G-byte hard drive is encased in a stainless steel box, ensuring a few bumps won't disrupt its contents.
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China re-exports a lot of what it imports, turning hard drives into iPods and iron ore into steel.
Sutardja says that he fired Steel because he wasn't working hard enough on the stock offering.
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But less hard than before, and outside the battered coal and steel belt (where the reformed Communists still do well) the economy is surprisingly strong.
The M100 also pushed hard into a couple exchange-traded funds, including Market Vectors Steel (amex: SLX - news - people ), which tracks the AMEX Steel Index.
Let them feel the hard landing that my constituents faced when they were laid off at Bethlehem Steel.
Despite signs that global steel prices may be picking up, many steelmakers will find it hard to pay back the loans they took out to finance their expansion.
The goal is clear, but getting there, finding a way through the murk and smog that hangs over cities like Wuhan, and forging a future based not on steel but a different type of economy - that's the hard part.
"It's reaching, it's digging deep, and it's pulling hard, " said Beverly Booth, captain of the Dragon Boat Atlanta team, nicknamed Steel Magnolias.
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Further, says Peabody, world steel production is up 8% this year, requiring an added 75 million tons of extra hard and hot-burning metallurgical coal.
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