Word: plants
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Many federal agents, as well as state and local police, complain that they are fighting smugglers without the paraphernalia they need, including night-vision devices, secure radios and electronic sensors to plant in remote airfields and along footpaths used by smugglers. The Customs Service in McAllen, Texas, has only one rubber raft to patrol a 170-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. Declares Silvestre Reyes, chief Border Patrol agent for the McAllen sector: "The crooks are better equipped than...
...soon to consign AMC to the corporate scrap heap. Its rugged if hardly racy Jeep Cherokee line continues to grow in popularity. Moreover, the company has built a modern $340 million plant near Toronto that will turn out spiffy new models designed to change AMC's reputation as a producer of small, unexciting cars. Says AMC President Joseph Cappy: "We are finally poised for that turnaround we've been talking about for so long...
...companies. As a drawing card, they point out that Rochester, with its universities and scientific companies like Eastman Kodak, is only 18 miles to the east of Brockport. As soon as Black & Decker finishes packing up its equipment, the village will be able to offer a large, modern industrial plant to interested companies, saving them the cost of building space. Bartlesville officials, meanwhile, hope that the city's large population of highly skilled early retirees may be able to establish some sophisticated consulting firms. Ajo has actually made a virtue of its trouble. Though it may never again...
...across the U.S., companies are making themselves over from the ground up, relentlessly examining the efficiency and effectiveness of everything they do. As a result, everyone from floor sweepers to senior executives must face the possibility of losing jobs, while entire communities struggle with plant closings. How well the process works may depend on the firm involved...
Francis A. Lawton, 61, said he is looking for a position at another university or in private industry. Lawton helped oversee the physical plant of the Faculty, which includes the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the College...