If the investment under way means these factories too are soon only 80% utilised, Detroit will lose the lifeline that allowed it to survive the past decade.
Kyoto's critics in America are unlikely to sign up to any agreement that encourages developed countries to pay over the odds to modernise factories in China, as under the current system.
But, as the Supreme Court told President Truman when he attempted to use an executive order to place all steel factories under control of the federal government, executive orders may not be used to make laws, only to execute them.
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That holds even if Chrysler had gone bankrupt which it did, anyway and its factories fell under the control of other automakers.
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Five factories worldwide will close under the restructuring, Max Kuniansky said.
But in 1992 China began to free up the distribution of land and factories for private use, and the corruption boom was under way.
The law prohibits children under 14 from working in factories, slaughterhouses or other dangerous locations.
With factories revolutionized, with shelves groaning under the weight of a surfeit of goods, stores for the first time let Americans buy on credit.
But such efforts can fail to uncover some dangers: At least two garment factories at Rana Plaza had passed international labor and safety standard audits under a European trade organization which addressed specific safety concerns at the factories but didn't assess the stability of the building that housed them.
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Indian producers retort that Bangladesh's jute factories, just under half of which are owned by the state, benefit from unfair export subsidies.
Under the auspices of the government-sponsored Urban Regeneration Station project, derelict warehouses and factories are being converted into creative hubs for up-and-coming artists and designers.
As margins come under pressure, especially in the civil business, Boeing can at least take heart from the fact that its factories now look (and, with luck, will perform) a bit less like giant garage workshops, and a bit more like modern manufacturing plants.
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