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...fastest-growing market is the auto industry, which is increasingly replacing metal with lightweight plastics in bumpers, body panels and other parts. These polymers typically weigh half as much as steel but are just as strong. The plastics conserve gas by making a vehicle lighter, and manufacturing them requires 10% to 20% less energy than fabricating metal parts. Admittedly, there can be problems. General Motors found that the polymer body panels of some of its minivans started to peel like old wallpaper. Moisture had seeped between the sheets of plastic and caused the panels to come unglued...
...Saturn factory in Tennessee. "GM wants to begin the decade of the '90s with a clean slate," says Scott Merlis, an analyst with the investment firm Morgan Stanley. The automaker's latest downsizing, which will eliminate an estimated 20,000 jobs, drew no protest from the United Auto Workers. One reason is that the U.A.W.'s new contract with GM allows many workers who lose their jobs to get severance equal to as much as three years...
What may be news to the driver in the street is no surprise to European auto manufacturers: they planned it that way. German car companies, in particular, have cashed in on the new opportunity, grabbing nearly two-thirds of the business. Volkswagen-Audi leads with expected sales of 60,000 cars this year, followed by BMW, which should hit 40,000. Mercedes, which sold 31,500 last year, will be close behind. For these companies, Japan is rapidly approaching the importance of the U.S. market. In fourth place in the Japanese market is a dark horse: Britain's lackluster Rover...
Last season, many of those visions became reality. D'Souza posted a .917 save percentage and a 2.69 goals-against-average in 18 outings--many of them played on mental auto-pilot...
...large cockroach, it might be your husband. Please check before you exterminate." Even men will sometimes admit that their privileged status in society isn't all roses. "Women know how to enjoy themselves more than men do," says a mid-level executive of a major Japanese auto company. "Men are too tired. We're all about to collapse...