21.   Its packing and shipping problems hampered widespread distribution of the Flavr Savr tomatoes before new packing plants were opened this spring.

22.   Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will open the plant today.

23.   Large companies headquartered elsewhere may be reluctant to open plants in a state that flaunts a symbol of racial segregation.

24.   Meanwhile, GM continues to open plants where demand for autos is rising, such as Brazil, Argentina, China, Thailand and Poland.

25.   Maybe now Mercedes will decide to open another plant in the United States.

26.   Nungak said the Inuk already owned three local airlines and planned to open four plants to process caribou meat.

27.   Over the last year, Kellogg seized the opportunity afforded by the collapse of communism to open plants in Latvia, Belarus and Russia.

28.   Schwinn opened a plant in Greenville, Miss., but dealers complained that its bikes were poorly made.

29.   Several large drug companies have announced plans to open new plants that either will produce Vitamin E synthetically or extract natural forms from soybeans.

30.   Sheftex Inc., which opened a plant in February to sew comforters, hired a handful of stitchers from a local competitor.