The company attributed the decline, to 516,073 vehicles from 523,516, to production shutdowns for model changes.

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

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.

Union officials pressed Ford on Wednesday to move its production shutdown so that it would not overlap with the Fourth of July holiday.

This accelerated filming schedule was aided by the adoption of French hours, a work schedule that skips the typical one-hour production shutdown for lunch break.

The series did not live up to the network's expectations and following numerous script revisions and two production shutdowns, it was canceled.

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

Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures were the first few companies to announce production shutdown.

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

Due to funding problems, the project suffered from repeated production shutdowns, leading to the eventual halting of principal filming.