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...French name seems to have a hidden significance: bottom of the lake. Beneath the well-groomed composure, Fond du Lac is a scared city. Its unemployment rate has already risen above the national average of 7.8% to 10.5%. Because three of the town's main industries-outboard motors, auto parts and home-building materials-have been among the hardest hit by the current recession, the rate continues to rise. Mercury Marine, the nation's second largest outboard-engine maker (after Outboard Marine of Waukegan, Ill.), has fired or furloughed 1,150 of some 2,600 workers...
Despite the sharp dive, the slump continues to look like a "two-and-a-half industry recession," according to Michael Evans, a private Washington economist. The two: autos and housing. The half: recreational products like vans, boats and outboard motors. All three areas represent purchases that consumers are generally able to postpone in times of economic uncertainty. In addition to the housing drop, auto sales declined 42% in the first ten days of May over the same period last year, and sales of recreational vehicles were off 40% in the first quarter...
Chrysler may have to sell off some more operations. Its small marine products division, which makes outboard motors and boats, and its 15% investment in France's Peugeot could well go on the block. The company may also sell one or more of its U.S. engine or transmission plants to a major importer like Volkswagen or Japan's Honda and work out a deal for Chrysler to buy back some of the production. In sum, the company will have to accept a reduced role in the auto market...
...mammoth blues, are an endangered species fully protected everywhere else in the world, but the Icelanders are permitted to take a few hundred every year, most of which are shipped off to whale-eating Japan. Suddenly, as the whaler was about to zero in on its prey, a small, outboard-powered Zodiac inflatable materialized under the ship's towering...
Most of Ely's outdoor-loving people demand unrestricted use of "their" wilderness, including the right to crisscross it in snowmobiles and outboard-powered boats. As a local insurance man puts it: "Why should we be locked out of an area we love...