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.

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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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It's 32 days for Asian brands, 47 days for brands in Europe, and 63 days for domestics.

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