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The correct answer choice is (E).
This question asks for what must be true about specialty-steel mills. In addition, it specifically asks for a way in which specialty-steel mills differ from integrated producers.
Support for answer choice (E) can be found in the first sentence of the final paragraph: "Integrated producers have been unable to compete successfully with minimills because the minimills, like specialty-steel mills, have dispensed almost entirely with the archaic energy- and capital-intensive front end of integrated steelmaking: the iron-smelting process, including the mining and preparation of the raw materials and the blast-furnace operation" (lines 50-57). This part of the passage therefore tells us that specialty-steel mills "have dispensed" with blast furnaces.
This question asks for what must be true about specialty-steel mills. In addition, it specifically asks for a way in which specialty-steel mills differ from integrated producers.
Support for answer choice (E) can be found in the first sentence of the final paragraph: "Integrated producers have been unable to compete successfully with minimills because the minimills, like specialty-steel mills, have dispensed almost entirely with the archaic energy- and capital-intensive front end of integrated steelmaking: the iron-smelting process, including the mining and preparation of the raw materials and the blast-furnace operation" (lines 50-57). This part of the passage therefore tells us that specialty-steel mills "have dispensed" with blast furnaces.