U.S. Steel said the talks covered employees at domestic flat-rolled and iron ore mining facilities as well as tubular operations in Lorain, Ohio, and Fairfield, Ala.
Israeli Army Radio said today's talks covered the transfer to the Palestinians of tax revenues that Israel has collected from Palestinians.
A senior State Department official said the talks covered "the waterfront" -- from Washington's concerns about Russian abuses in its war against separatists in Chechnya to questions of press freedom in Russia.
Meanwhile, representatives of Israel, various Palestinian factions and the European Union, as well as America's new peace envoy, George Mitchell, converged on Egypt's capital, Cairo, to hash out the terms of a more lasting peace.The talks covered not only the securing of a formal ceasefire and getting immediate humanitarian aid into the stricken territory, but a range of other tricky issues.
The talks covered little new ground.
The talks covered various economic issues, the statement said, without elaborating.
The talks cover workers in 13 states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
The second round of talks covers 18 categories, including drugs, rice and automobiles.
The talks cover a variety of topics, including sustainability issues and "Tasting Our Way to a Better Food System," a program at 2 25 p.m. led by Mitchell Davis, vice president of the James Beard Foundation.
Talks cover education, sustainability, well-being, food and design, but co-founder David Hieatt told me they may begin to explore more practical sessions, which could include both web design and, intriguingly, pigkeeping.
Because the center is made up of four diverse divisions (Public Health Sciences, Basic Sciences, Clinical Research, and Human Biology), the talks cover something outside a member's direct area of expertise most of the time, which makes for an eager and enthusiastic audience.
