Anxious to extol the virtues of his latest starter design, the general manager of our factory that produced starters lobbied me for a separate block of time to discuss his new design with the purchasing manager of one of our largest diesel engine customers who happened to be attending our quarterly meeting.
General Motors has suspended production at a factory in Louisiana due to a shortage of Japanese parts.
"We thought he was out of his mind, " says William Tursky, a general manager at an Illinois Tool Works factory outside of Chicago that turns out 6 million screws a day.
"We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building, " Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah of the Dhaka fire brigade told AFP news agency.
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Born in the northern province of Chernihiv on the border with Russia, he spent much of his career as a missile engineer, at the missile range at Baikonur in Kazakhstan and the top-secret Pivdenie missile factory near Dnipropetrovsk, where he eventually became general director.
General Electric put on hold its plan to build a 400-megawatt factory in Colorado in 2012.
Tice says that companies like General Electric (which last week announced plans to build the largest solar power factory in the United States) have approached D.
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General Motors and Ford sponsored some of our events, but my tour of the Ford Rouge factory, where workers assembled the Ford F-150 pickup, was paid for out of my own pocket and it was well worth it for a car design lover and transportation geek like myself.
General Motors laid out a massive restructuring plan Monday that will include cutting 21, 000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and closing its Pontiac brand.
LaSorda, who rose through the ranks at General Motors before joining Chrysler in 2000, had tried to implement the new business model at a proposed Chrysler factory in Canada in late 2002.
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