71.   Chipmakers worldwide, from Toshiba to Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., have announced plans for new factories.

72.   Chrysler Corp. can increase vehicle production without building new factories.

73.   CHINA PLANS CURBS ON CONSTRUCTION Chinese officials announced that they would ban construction of any new factories that make a broad range of ordinary consumer items.

74.   Chrysler has built a new factory nearby to assemble the Jeep Liberty, which will replace the Cherokee this summer.

75.   Chipmakers worldwide, including Intel Corp., Micron Technologies Inc., Toshiba and Hitachi Ltd. have announced plans for new factories.

76.   Construction spending posted the largest gain in nine months in June as starts of new factories and highways increased, the Commerce Department said.

77.   Corporate spending in new factories and production facilities, a key to a recovery, is also rebounding moderately at manufacturing companies, he added.

78.   Costs related to the marketing of new products and building new factories held back that growth, it said.

79.   Corporate spending to build new factories and production facilities, a key force for a recovery, was also rising, he said.

80.   Croft said strong U.S. exports should later translate into new factory jobs, helping kickstart the domestic side of the Canadian economy.