1.   The factory was operating at peak efficiency.

2.   Bargainers for the UAW and Chrysler have been meeting for several weeks on a contract that will govern how the new factories will operate.

3.   Both factories were still operating Friday.

4.   But unemployment is falling, wages and retail sales are rising and factories are operating ever closer to full capacity, with new figures due Tuesday morning.

5.   Factories are still operating at below average rates, despite the improvement.

6.   In Sunset Park, a tiny garment factory operates inside a two-story cinder-block building that used to be an auto repair shop.

7.   Inefficient factories are still operating.

8.   On the one hand, state factories should operate in market-oriented ways.

9.   That is a relatively large sum in these parts, where no factory is operating at full power and many are not operating at all.

10.   The city, loyal to one candidate, found itself blockaded by militias loyal to the other, making it all but impossible for apparel factories to operate.