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...dilemma is even thornier because a whole subset of American companies--an extremely large subset--remains blissfully unaffected by what is happening overseas. Like Feldenkreis' Supreme International, such companies are driven almost entirely by domestic sales. Privately owned EMP Manufacturing, a maker of screws, bolts and other fasteners in Chesterfield Township, Mich., about 25 miles north of Detroit, does $4 million in sales a year, mostly to the automotive industry. EMP is basking in several years of record-breaking sales. "I don't think it's affected the Big Three at all," says general manager Steve Novak, who notes that...
...never--try to estimate the cost of the art and furnishings. There is no truth to that story about a piece of vitello tonnato sliding onto the table at a rather posh New York dinner party when my wife tilted her plate to get a look at the maker's mark on the bottom. She's not like that...
Still, the i Series, particularly the cheapest model, will give good value if you're slightly mobile and even mostly immobile, bound to a couch or just looking for a second PC to knock around the house with. Best news for consumers: IBM isn't the only PC maker that has identified the low-end laptop market. Let the lap wars begin...
...visit, it is a place of sunshine and Bob Marley, a place to get high as a kite. To businessmen, it is the bauxite (a type of aluminum) capital of the world. To Led Zeppelin, it is the proper way to pronounce the title of their song, "D'yer Maker." Yet these many shades of Jamaica remain largely separate from one another. Sun-seeking tourists are kept from seeing the poverty, while no one ever mentions Led Zeppelin at a bauxite mine...
...also be needing my Snoopy slushy maker...