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Bloated work forces are weighing down even potentially profitable enterprises. When the Jinbei minivan plant wanted to acquire land including a brickyard to expand its factory in the late '80s, it had to take on the brickworks' 2,000 employees as well. Nonetheless, five cities in the northeast dismissed or "resettled" more than 420,000 workers last year, and the provincial government in Shenyang has announced it will cut an additional...
Desperate times demand desperate measures, however, and a few adventurers in Shenyang are forging reforms, even some that may be technically illegal. In many cases, the government looks the other way or even endorses such improvised solutions. What Zhang Hongwei is doing at the state-owned Jinbei minivan factory would hardly shock a Guangdong businessman, but his ways are considered dangerously radical here...
...middle of the best economy in more than two decades, people in Chillicothe, Ohio, can see the fireworks but can't hear the boom. Prosperity is not a parade through the center of town; it has arrived so quietly, by modem and by minivan, that people here don't trust what they...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The government is investigating complaints that seat belts in older versions of Chrysler's top-selling minivans are becoming unhooked from a floor anchor in the middle row of the vehicle. As many as 1.1 million minivans produced from 1991 to March 1993 may be involved. Records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show the agency has received 171 complaints, all of which involve the belts for the right-side seat in the minivans' second row, according to the Associated Press. In one complaint, South Carolina resident Lynn Beaty hit the brakes on her 1992 Dodge Caravan...
...popular Malibu family sedan with both headroom and horsepower to spare. From Oldsmobile there is the Intrigue, a new nameplate for an elegantly tailored four-door sedan that, its chief designer says, "looks like a car dressed in a Chanel suit." From Pontiac, there is a two-tone macho minivan for suburbanites who still lust for the fast lane. From Saturn, the EV1, a noiseless, all-aluminum electric vehicle. From Cadillac, Catera, GM's first Euro-American entry, designed to take on such young luxury imports as the BMW-3s and Lexus ES300...