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Brazil's Tramontina has joined the global trend of outsourcing, with a curious twist: the cookwaremaker is moving manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Tramontina last month reopened a shuttered plant in Manitowoc, Wis., and plans to move both line production and raw-material processing there from China. "Once we started looking, we figured out it would be very economical to make our products domestically," says Antonio Galafassi, president of Tramontina USA. Although labor costs are higher, the plant's efficiency and its proximity to big customers offset that disadvantage. The company opened a distribution center in Houston in 1986, when...
Ning Wen and his wife were arrested last fall at their home office in Manitowoc, Wis., for allegedly sending their native China $500,000 worth of computer parts that could enhance missile systems. As these naturalized citizens await trial, similar episodes in Mount Pleasant, N.J., and Palo Alto, Calif., point only to the tip of the iceberg, according to FBI officials keeping tabs on more than 3,000 companies in the U.S. suspected of collecting information for China. A hotbed of activity is Silicon Valley, where the number of Chinese espionage cases handled by the bureau increases...
...that was not the case. History repeats itself. If we jump the gun and think we have won a victory over terrorism, will we not arrive at the same result as in Vietnam? We must push our arrogance aside and maintain our focus. S. KYLE PAULY Manitowoc...
Thank you, TIME, for the humor in your Notebook section of your issue on the election standoff. Reading it definitely lowered my blood pressure. EDGAR C. STUNTZ Manitowoc...
...government to provide what they are supposed to: food and shelter, immunization, day care, attendance at school and the teaching of values. It's too bad that somewhere along the line, America as a society has told parents that it's O.K. to dump their responsibilities. WILLARD P. SPRINGER Manitowoc, Wisconsin