Likewise, Ford has closed five American factories in the past three years, cut production for the past 11 quarters and will go further still to lower stocks of unsold cars.

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In three short years, Intel has pushed its factories to produce ever-smaller features on SoCs, jumping from 32nm to 22nm to 14nm at a cadence of one node per year, twice the usual pace.

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Mr Powell said Iraq has about seven mobile bioweapons laboratories or factories, with two or three trucks each as few as 18 trucks in all, easy to hide among the thousands on Iraq's roads.

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Toyota also has a wholly owned subsidiary, Bodine Aluminum, an aluminum casting company, which operates three factories in Tennessee and Missouri.

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The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.

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The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings (nyse: AXL - news - people ).

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