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...29¢ to 32¢), he cut 23,000 management jobs, hired more letter carriers and raked in $1 billion in profit. Runyon began his career in 1943 at a Ford plant in Dallas, where he climbed to the post of vice president before leaving in 1980 to become Japanese automaker Nissan's first employee in the U.S. As CEO of its American subsidiary, he built Nissan's first auto plant in the country, at a greenfield site in Smyrna, Tenn. In 1988 Runyon went on to chair the giant Tennessee Valley Authority, where he earned the moniker "Carvin' Marvin" for slashing...
SUSAN BYRNE: Companies don't care if our children are working in a Nissan plant in North Carolina or if we hire an accountant in India. The kinds of jobs we create here and the kind we send overseas may have a profound effect on society, but it doesn't affect corporate profits. In a worldwide sense, we are having a strong and vigorous jobs recovery...
...locals from traveling to the city to buy goods. The newly opened road had sparked a boom in business in the village. But in January the villagers set up their own checkpoint, this time to prevent strangers from coming in. "It is not like the old checkpoint," explains Salam Nissan Shamoun, the local postmaster. "This time it is our sons and cousins...
...Austrian-made Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
...stolen machine parts. Though the killers remain free, Salman is impressed. "The police are doing a good job now," he says. An officer on the scene, Lieut. Nasser Hamoud Ali, speaks confidently of tracking down the men. "We will find them," he says, as he loads up a Nissan pickup with the recovered goods. "We know the killers and the people know them, so it will be easy." It may not be easy to maintain such bravado amid the danger that Iraq's police face. But many Baghdad policemen believe things will soon get better. "If they stop the terrorists...