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...outskirts are dotted with enormous new plants, but these are not your padre's maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view of both cities...
Rubin remembers attending an English class his sophomore year in which he was unfamiliar with authors most of his peers already knew...
...Chose Him: For ushering the Democrats into an unfamiliar position of authority, and for taking on the de facto leadership of the party, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is our Person of the Week...
...Democrats learn their way around an unfamiliar seat of power, GOP party strategists are quick brush aside any suggestion of Democratic dominance. This is hardly a situation, they remind anyone who will listen, that allows any party to assume a position of true supremacy. But the unintended consequence of all this is that the the Democratic majority gives the Republicans a foil and perhaps a campagin issue in 2002. You can imagine Bush campaigning against the Do-Nothing Democratic congress...
...According to Snow, when she arrived at VES last summer, many department faculty were entirely unfamiliar with the official University policies regarding budget requests...