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...even thornier because a whole subset of American companies--an extremely large subset--remains blissfully unaffected by what is happening overseas. Like Feldenkreis' Supreme International, such companies are driven almost entirely by domestic sales. Privately owned EMP Manufacturing, a maker of screws, bolts and other fasteners in Chesterfield Township, Mich., about 25 miles north of Detroit, does $4 million in sales a year, mostly to the automotive industry. EMP is basking in several years of record-breaking sales. "I don't think it's affected the Big Three at all," says general manager Steve Novak, who notes that forecasts...
...Ypsilanti Township, Mich., granted 12-year tax abatements on $250 million worth of new equipment and machinery that GM installed in its Willow Run assembly plant. On its application for the second tax abatement, GM said no new jobs would be created but 4,900 existing jobs "will be retained as a result of the project." A GM executive reaffirmed the company's commitment at a township board meeting...
...China economic reforms are real, already deeper and broader than Russia's. Deng Xiaoping initiated capitalist changes back in 1979, when he legalized farmers' markets. As a result, China's agricultural sector is far more productive than Russia's. Diverse village and township enterprises have spread what is effectively private enterprise deep into the grass roots of the country, in a way not yet imagined outside Russia's major cities...
Most neighbors insist they had little notion of the scurrilousness at Sunnymede, even though Dempsey advertised AN AFTERNOON DELIGHT in Morris County's Daily Record and the Yellow Pages. Morris Township was once known as millionaire's row, and its residents value their privacy. But something always seemed different about Dempsey and her husband Robert. One Christmas shortly after they moved into Sunnymede, the Dempseys invited most of the neighborhood to their house for a lavish soiree. Champagne flowed in rivers. "We're mostly straitlaced Methodists," Elizabeth Smith says. "She seemed like a party girl. Not my type." Soon after...
Investigators have turned up a computerized list of the brothel's frequent customers, and the locals suspect many of their neighbors are on it. They say the township has lost its cloistered innocence. "This road is now notorious. People come to stop and gawk," sighed a homeowner as a car swung into her driveway, having done just that. "We're so used to hearing about these sordid things these days that nothing shocks us anymore," said Weinlein, the neighbor, "and it's sad." She cast her eyes around. "Pretty soon it's going to be old news. Things will...