There's been a lot of success with the 'twin plant' concept, with manufacturing on the Mexican side and distribution on the US side. We're following that.

That's a huge drop in manufacturing... that throws that NAPM number in a less favorable light.

Crediting Dick Cheney and this administration's policies with the success of Harley-Davidson - or any other American manufacturing plant - is like awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China for its actions at Tien An Men Square.

Broad based support is needed among manufacturing customer organizations to support standards development and deployment activities. The success of this effort and future development of standards based software components is dependent upon demonstrating a strong market need and customer commitment.

We're seeing improvements in stock market investments, the manufacturing industry, new business start-ups and overall economic strength.

[On a windy Friday afternoon, James Crowe, 40, an heir to a tire manufacturing fortune, offered a real estate cruise aboard his 27-foot-long Sea Ray runabout.] See that boathouse? ... It's owned by some American worth $700 million, and nobody here knows or cares.