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...charges have roiled the until now aptly named Midwestern town of Normal, where the plant has helped almost double the tax rolls and provided the kind of working-class prosperity that is fast fading from the American scene. Opened in 1987 as a joint venture of M.M.M.A. and the Chrysler Corp. (which sold its share to Mitsubishi in 1991), the $650 million assembly plant employs some 4,000 people, including 70 Japanese nationals--all of them managers--and almost 900 women. Assembly-line and maintenance workers make about $18 an hour and, with overtime and shift-preference pay, can earn...
...STATE visit to Tokyo, President Clinton walked outside the White House for a photo op he was clearly looking forward to. Accompanied by Mickey Kantor, the tough-talking Trade Representative who later that day would be nominated to succeed Ron Brown as Secretary of Commerce, Clinton viewed a new Chrysler Neon, Ford Taurus and GM Cavalier--all equipped with right-hand steering wheels for sale in Japan. "Just four years ago," said Clinton, "if you had told me that I would see it, I'm not sure I would have believed it--right-hand-drive American models made by American...
Callahan started to take pictures regularly in 1938, when he was a shipping clerk at Chrysler in Detroit with an amateur's interest in cameras. A brief workshop with Ansel Adams, who passed through town in 1941, confirmed photography not just as his profession but in some sense as his calling. Callahan decided he was an artist, and it turned out he was right. Within seven years he had made some of his most enduring pictures, held the first of a long line of exhibitions and saw his work on the walls of the Museum of Modern...
...dispute is outsourcing -- the production of parts by outside parts or companies. The union fears this would cost jobs, while GM argues it is necessary in order to remain competitive. The company currently outsources about 30 percent of its parts, compared with about 70 percent for rival automaker Chrysler. Financial analysts say that GM must outsource more or face a long-term competitive disadvantage...
DETROIT STRIKES BACK Chrysler has become the most aggressive U.S. automaker in putting these retailing ideas to work. The company angered many of its dealers by giving CarMax a franchise to sell new Chryslers, Plymouths and Jeep Eagles in Norcross, Georgia, beginning next month. Chrysler is also testing a new-car dealership called MidPark Jeep-Eagle in Dallas, where the fixed-price vehicles carry discounts of $1,800 to $2,000 below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. "People appreciate a low-pressure place that offers a fair price," says MidPark co-owner Jim DeWolfe. That spreading realization could soon...