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Article: HARD pressed
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- Central Penn Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 10, 2004
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In late November, Gov Mitt Romney of Massachusetts proposed punishing businesses that fail to offer health-care coverage. The Republican governor suggested several possible penalties for non-compliant companies, including forcing them to pay a national shortage of cement resulted in higher prices and irritation for a number of local concrete manufacturers and contractors this year.
"Every time we turned around this season, someone was calling us to tell us we were going to be allocated, said Roger Studer, quality control director for Hempt Brothers Inc., a concrete manufacturer based in Lower Allen Township. "It was a supreme hassle."
While Hempt Brothers was able to supply all of its ...