1.   As the strike against General Motors drags on, dealers are either facing a shortage of popular models or banking on their existing inventory to weather the production shutdown.

2.   Automakers say they need to settle contingency plans in the next month to take advantage of summer production shutdowns for training.

3.   Automotive sales might have been held back because of temporary shortages associated with summer production shutdowns, analysts said.

4.   Chrysler has built up its inventories of mini-vans in anticipation of a production shutdown this spring to prepare to introduce a new model.

5.   GM, which is now in its annual two-week production shutdown, said its figures were preliminary.

6.   If the consequences of these steps are lost markets, production shutdowns, large-scale layoffs and social instability, that could spell catastrophe for the Communist Party.

7.   Long production shutdowns to prepare for model changeovers also bit into sales, Losh said, while high overtime and freight costs at some plants cut into profits.

8.   The decisions brighten earnings prospects at South Korean airplane manufacturers which were facing the possibility of production shutdowns because of insufficeint.

9.   The decisions brighten earnings prospects at South Korean airplane manufacturers which were facing the possibility of production shutdowns because of insufficient demand.

10.   The production shutdown, management had decided, was just too costly.