While foreign refiners could pick up some slack, domestics would essentially control the market.
He sees himself going up against Budweiser and other mid-market domestics, primarily in the southwest.
She won the case and now heads Indonesia Group, a support organization for domestics.
"The global companies offer better valuations and higher yields than the domestics, " he says.
It's 32 days for Asian brands, 47 days for brands in Europe, and 63 days for domestics.
Minuto, owner of Hampton Domestics, says he gets regular calls from people wanting to escape from the office.
Meanwhile, GM recalled 500, 000 vehicles, and Chrysler, usually tagged as having the worst quality among the domestics, recalled 773, 000.
Of the domestics, the stately and comfortable Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans seem to hold up the best.
So, less concerned about the UAW, Toyota has decided not to pin wages at its new plants to the domestics' wages.
Having a strong, profitable dealer network is a huge advantage for Toyota, and a huge disadvantage for domestics like Chrysler, he says.
And the domestics were undercutting Nokia and Motorola by 25% on price.
Light trucks have been another story: The domestics have flourished, keeping their pickup truck, minivan and SUV plants running at 86% of capacity.
Even worse for the domestics, the new foreign plants are flexible--they can quickly switch from making SUVs to minivans or cars if the market changes.
At that time, 60 percent of all African-American women were domestics.
"Hyundai has to realize that the domestics are not going to make room for them like they did for the Japanese, " warns industry consultant Maryann Keller.
Van Eck Global is back to making its case for small cap companies in the big emerging markets, this time putting Russian domestics in the spotlight.
The domestics learned the hard way that ceding one segment of the market, even a historically unprofitable one like small cars, means ceding customers who don't come back.
Foreigners can export gasoline, but domestics are much closer to their markets and can respond quickly to shifting demand for the increasingly complicated fuel blends required by various states.
The earthy domestics who toil long hours in his apartment building live together in squalid quarters on the sixth floor, and their plight awakens Jean-Louis's long-dormant sense of justice.
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At the time, 46 percent of the city's population were low-income construction workers, domestics, drivers and street sellers squatting on land on the outskirts of the city of 350, 000, 150 miles east of Mexico City.
Several Japanese auto makers in the U.S., which abandoned Japanese production because of the high yen, say they will soon become net exporters from the U.S., hiring Americans to build cars for export even as "domestics" like GM move toward Chinese imports.
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