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...Three currently account for around 240,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S., down from 340,000 in 1993.) The Asian companies have grown the fastest. Toyota, which plans to overtake GM soon as the world's largest automaker, has 11 U.S. plants and expects to open a truck factory in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006. European brands, including BMW and Mercedes-Benz, are also growing. CAR estimates that foreign automakers operating in the U.S. add 1.8 million jobs to the American economy, including white-collar, dealership and supplier positions--from partsmakers to the bartenders at post-whistle watering holes...
...gone around and talked to people, maybe they would’ve stayed.” There were only two physical injuries at The Game, neither of which appeared to be alcohol-related, Patten said. “One walked into the back of a truck by mistake,” he said. “The other was an alum, an older gentleman, who was playing football and stretched out for a pass and landed on his shoulder.” He described these occurrences as “just accidents” and said the fact that there...
11TH HOUR IS THE DANGEROUS ONE A Penn State study finds that a truck driver's risk of crashing is three times as high during the last hour of a haul as during the first...
...that she has received her last paycheck from her former job as an administrative assistant at New Orleans' Dillard University, Carmelita is looking for new work. So far, openings for a hot-dog vendor or truck driver have not been too appealing. Carmelita and Nathaniel like to imagine that in three to five years, they may be able to return to New Orleans. Their neighborhood of Pontchartrain Park, the first African-American subdivision in the city, was so wrecked that whatever is left is slated to be reduced to rubble. Carmelita is sad that it will be lost to history...
...country. Delisle admits that he didn't see anything the government didn't want him to see. But from what he was allowed to witness, he strings together a series of remarkable scenes. Many are seemingly trivial-a hotel worker slowly crushing a fly underfoot, a propaganda truck blaring encouragement to construction workers-but when seen through the keen eye of a man who spent his workdays pondering the facial expressions of animated bears, they give rare insight into life beyond...