Forklift driver Clyde Boyce takes inventory in the warehouse at a Michelin tire manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Forklift driver Clyde Boyce takes inventory in the warehouse at a Michelin tire manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Forklift driver Clyde Boyce takes inventory in the warehouse at a Michelin tire manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Inspector Buddy Rice checks for tire defects at a Michelin manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Inspector Buddy Rice checks for tire defects at a Michelin manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
associated press Tire inspector Buddy Rice checks for defects in the tire-verification area at a Michelin manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., in July. U.S. factory activity shrank for the third straight month in August as new orders, production and employment all fell. Weak consumer spending and steady declines in business orders for large machinery are slowing factory output.
Tire inspector Buddy Rice checks for defects in the tire-verification area at a Michelin manufacturing plant in Greenville, S.C., in July. U.S. factory activity shrank for the third straight month in August as new orders, production and employment all fell. Weak consumer spending and steady declines in business orders for large machinery are slowing factory output. (Associated Press)
Patrons eat lunch at the Finjan restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium, on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. The GaultMillau, whose influence is on par with Michelin or Zagat, only granted the Finjan restaurant 13 out of 20 points. But the fact it was tapped at all drives home a new phenomenon on the culinary scene: Frugal is fashionable in Europe's bleak economic times. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
A copy of the latest Japanese edition of the Michelin Guide featuring selected restaurants in Japanese cities of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kamakura is on display during a news conference in Yokohama, Japan, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. Japan's capital retained the top spot in the world of gastronomy , earning more three-star restaurants than Paris in the guide for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Nozomi Iwakiri) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA
