Word: plant
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...Canadian funeral conglomerate, wants the U.S. government to pay $725 million in damages because a Mississippi jury harbored what Loewen claims were "anti-Canadian, racial and class biases" when it found the company guilty of contract fraud. METALCLAD, a California firm that was prevented from opening a toxic-waste plant in Mexico, won $15.6 million from that country. UPS is seeking $160 million from Canada because its public postal service competes "unfairly" against the Atlanta-based firm...
...year ago when Stronach, 35, took the helm of her father's company, MAGNA. But since then, Canada's biggest auto-parts maker has posted record sales of $11 billion, up 5%--during the recession. Stronach is steering Magna further into auto assembly, last month buying a Chrysler plant in Austria next to where it already builds Saabs and Mercedes...
...Despite written assurances that the new owner would "quickly raise the quality of production and create a pillar industry," Wang suspected the new boss was really after his plant's assets. The factory stood along a tree-lined boulevard near a shopping district: a perfect place to build apartments, and the new owner was a property developer. There was no evidence of foul play in the sale of the power equipment plant, but if the new owner were to scrap the factory and make a killing, the workers wanted decent payouts...
...Wang and his colleagues made friends with the employees of the nearby Zhengzhou Ceramics Plant, which produced dinner plates for export to the U.S. Workers there say they received no severance pay after the plant went bankrupt and merged with a private company, so they took over the factory two years ago. Police tried to force them out; workers from Wang's factory joined in to keep the siege going. Recently, both factories were shut down. Shi Jian, the ceramics factory workers' leader, went into hiding after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit...
...much alive. The gala, which raised almost $24 million, has been criticized as a prime example of Washington's salesman culture. A TIME investigation reveals just how excessive it was: at tables sold for $25,000 apiece were oilmen seeking to lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent about 20 of their officials and lobbyists...