Word: auto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zhang is no foreign import but a 30-year veteran of the state factory system, a lifelong auto man who runs one of the few profitable heavy industries in Shenyang. When the plant, burdened with 7,000 workers making shoddy cars no one could afford, foundered in the early '90s, the Hong Kong conglomerate Huachen wheedled a 51% share as a joint venture. It went out looking for a mainland general manager and found Zhang...
...Japan disputes over the years, concerning everything from auto shipments to whaling, this latest dustup may be the hardest to comprehend. Baseball is, after all, an American game. If the Japanese didn't want to learn from an American umpire, then why did they ask him to get behind home plate...
...pillows, blankets or mattresses. Their home was leveled to its concrete foundation, and all that remained was the stripped and battered hulk of one of Larry's collection of '57 Chevys. In the frantic search for survivors, someone tacked a note to the front door of Larry's antique-auto-parts store: "Larry, Joan and the boys, I pray to God you read this. I have a motor home and travel trailer... Call me and tell me you made it. I'll bring you a place to stay...
Bill Clinton is not the only sitting President to be faced with a private lawsuit. His idol John Kennedy was sued over an auto accident that occurred at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. It seems that four Mississippi delegates hitched a ride to a party in a chauffeured Kennedy campaign car that then collided with another car. The injured (and apparently ungrateful) foursome sued J.F.K. for $450,000. Among the plaintiffs: HUGH BAILEY, a colorful state senator known for his regular antics on a donkey, who hired lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, later of palimony fame. As Mitchelson's interrogatories...
...illegally selling goods produced by Chinese prisoners, and accused the Clinton Administration of ignoring the practice. Wu, who heads a group dedicated to exposing forced-labor in China's prisons, said the products made involuntarily by prisoners included office supplies, sport shirts with Playboy, Esprit and Arnold Palmer labels, auto parts for American cars, and even Christmas tree lights. President Clinton plans to renew China's most-favored-nation trade status, despite continuing allegations of human rights abuses. Under current procedures, U.S. customs officials find it difficult to investigate allegations concerning such prison labor because they must ask permission...