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With the largest presence in China of America's Big Three, GM is well positioned to grab an early lead in selling to the nation's growing middle class. The company is ramping up production of its compact Buick Sail (based on its Opel Corsa design). Other foreign automakers planning to produce compacts in China include Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota and Citroen...
...this summer, says Jemal, Haier will have 200 products in U.S. stores, including a new compact fridge with a desk attachment, marketed to the college crowd. By this time next year, he predicts, the firm will have earned global revenues between $10 billion and $12 billion--good enough for a spot on the Global...
Jeffords says the initial bitterness toward him has cooled among G.O.P. colleagues. "At first," he says. "I was pretty much walled off." And there has been some payback: Republicans undermined a Northeast dairy compact that subsidizes Vermont farmers, and they've refused to add extra money that Jeffords wanted for disabled students in the education reform bill passed last week...
...Mike, myth and reality collide at nearly every juncture. People who see his compact, 5-ft. 7 1/2-in. frame in person insist he must be shorter than the beefy man in the photo. The guys at work grumble that all the attention is going to him instead of the six men missing from his firehouse. His wife E.J. demands to know why they have only had a 30-second conversation about Sept. 11. Everyone wants to know how many people the superhero pulled from the towers. The answer never changes: "I saved one person that day, and that...
...Radko's rendition of the World Trade Center, called Heroes All ($34, right), was made in Poland of mouth-blown glass. Frederick's of Hollywood's America the Beautiful thong ($5) was manufactured in Hong Kong and printed in the U.S. Estee Lauder is selling an America the Beautiful compact that comes in enamel ($40) or encrusted with crystals ($75). The latter model is made in the U.S. using crystals from Austria. Some have questioned whether the items are in good taste, but their appeal is twofold: proceeds support relief efforts and the economies of U.S. allies in the fight...