11.   Compal, Arima and First International have opened factories to assemble laptop computers near Shanghai.

12.   Expecting continued growth, Green opened new factories and modernized others, confident that adding new debt was a reasonable risk.

13.   Erling Klinger is also opening factories in Mexico and Poland.

14.   Ford Motor Co. and its local partners will open new factories in Vietnam in October, in China in December and in Thailand next summer.

15.   GM is turning it into an industrial park, and five auto supply companies have opened factories already.

16.   He speaks of big companies closing plants in this country, leaving Americans unemployed, in order to open factories in Asia paying starvation wages.

17.   In other words, the nation inadvertently borrowed against future economic growth by creating jobs and opening factories it was not yet ready for.

18.   Last month, Motorola also opened a factory to make analog cellular telephone equipment in McHenry, Ill.

19.   Mitsubishi opened a factory to build its Strada pickup truck in July and bought out its Thai partner in August.

20.   MERCEDES OPENS A PLANT IN BRAZIL DaimlerChrysler opened a factory to produce Mercedes-Benz cars in Brazil.