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Bloated work forces are weighing down even potentially profitable enterprises. When the Jinbei minivan plant wanted to acquire land including a brickyard to expand its factory in the late '80s, it had to take on the brickworks' 2,000 employees as well. Nonetheless, five cities in the northeast dismissed or "resettled" more than 420,000 workers last year, and the provincial government in Shenyang has announced it will cut an additional...
...rain. Tuesday, the Flying Dutchman led for 62 of the race's 200 laps and took the lead for the final time when he drove past teammate Scott Goodyear on the first turn of a restart on lap 194. As is nearly always the case at the Brickyard, the race ended on a bit of controversy. A yellow caution light, indicating no passing, came on after Tony Stewart banged off the fourth turn wall as he tried to catch the two leaders three laps from the end. With one lap to go, the starter waved the green flag that signals...
Cafe Latte, Mediterranean Kitchen, Abbey Road, Starlight Video, The Brickyard Cafe, Big T Sub Shop, Stuff-It Bakery, The Way You Like It and Pulcinella's Restaurant were the sites of additional break-ins or break-in attempts, according to an article in last week's Cambridge Chronicle
...Then Mears began closing in, gaining almost a second a lap. Johncock kept thinking desperately, "Is it going to stay together? Is it going to stay together?" It did, and he did, but only narrowly. He won by a mere .16 sec. in the closest finish in the Brickyard's history. But for Johncock, there was little cause to savor the $290,609 victory. After the race, he flew to Hastings, Mich., and the hospital bedside of his comatose mother Frances, 77. Hours later, she died, never having learned of her son's triumph...
...dispatches on Smiley's death, it was quickly pointed out that nobody had died at the old "brickyard" since 1973, when Art Pollard was killed in qualifications, Swede Savage was fatally injured in the race, and Armando Teran was run over by a fire truck speeding the wrong way toward Savage's crash. (That was also the year Salt Walther was maimed, if maiming counts...