51.   Court documents showed that Francis had portrayed himself as a wealthy technology investor looking to establish a manufacturing plant in the Houston area and win NASA contracts.

52.   Concern for employee safety prompted Aventis Pharmaceuticals to close its southeast Kansas City manufacturing plant.

53.   Connecticut-based Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. said yesterday that it plans to idle some furniture manufacturing plants this summer because of reduced demand.

54.   Digital even built a huge chip manufacturing plant in Hudson, Mass., to manufacture the Alpha.

55.   Draconian controls on toxic wastes from a variety of manufacturing plants, as well as clean up standards for abandoned uranium mines and chemical waste sites fit the category.

56.   Earlier this year, Kansas City beat Louisville in the competition to land the new Harley-Davidson Motor Co. manufacturing plant.

57.   Efforts are underway in the region to slash mercury emissions from incinerators, power plants, manufacturing plants, and other sources.

58.   Elsewhere, closings of military bases and large manufacturing plants gave some cities chances to spread their economic risks among smaller replacement businesses.

59.   Even a leading critic of the U.S. nuclear complex said processes at manufacturing plants have improved since the early days of the nuclear age.

60.   Everything from traffic lights to manufacturing plants went dark in parts of the San Francisco Bay area, throughout Silicon Valley, and in the capital of Sacramento.