11.   With the market for planes so diminished, the Saratov factory began groping for alternate businesses.

12.   A Singapore factory has begun producing a locally invented combat boot designed to protect against foot injuries from anti-personnel land mines.

13.   The factories will begin work within three years, it added.

14.   The same factory began making Chrysler minivans in January.

15.   The factory would begin to produce at the beginning of the next century, it said.