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...link and how NAFTA's market access is accelerating this corporation's global evolution. More than half its roughly $1 billion in sales last year went to the U.S., Canada, Japan and Australia, and 84% was auto parts. That will expand when a $136 million engine factory, a joint venture with Caterpillar, opens next year. Saltillo's building-products division, on the other hand, is 90% dependent on the domestic market. Within five years, this proportion is projected to be evenly split between domestic and foreign sales, a feat that may not prove feasible for other business units, which would...
...approach in action at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, one of six hospitals to be named this week as lead participants in a 3 1/2-year, $1.5 million joint project aimed at reducing preterm birth, sponsored by the March of Dimes and the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute...
...many Vietnamese consumers. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group in a joint venture with a local company. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like." Foreign giants entering Vietnam will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy, Pincus says, and the influx of new banks will free...
...Indian basketball summit. They will finalize initiatives like coaching clinics, refurbished neighborhood courts and youth- development camps. The NBA is talking to Time Warner (the parent of Time) about producing hoops-related programming on Pogo TV, the company's Indian children's channel, and to espn Star Sports, a joint venture of Disney and News Corp., about increasing the league's presence on the network's Indian sports channels. The NBA is also in discussions with Nokia about supplying league content on Indian mobile phones...
...President Bush of underfunding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, Kennedy has said he still believes in its principle: using standards to lift every student's performance. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings told TIME last week that she and the Senator had made the act's reauthorization a joint priority even before the election. "Kennedy and I talked this summer about the need to get this done--win, lose or draw," she said...