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Communications Industry
COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY in the United States is best understood as a rapidly changing industrial sector that is engaged in the production and distribution of content designed to inform and entertain. When characterized more generally as the "core copyright industries,"... Read more |
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industrial union
industrial union labor union composed of all the workers in a given industry, regardless of skill, craft, or occupation (as opposed to the craft union, in which all members are of one skill, such as carpenters or electricians). The industrial union is sometimes referred to as a vertical union,... Read more |
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Burlington
Burlington: Economy Major Industries and Commercial Activity Greater Burlington is the industrial, tourist, and financial center of the state. Manufacturing is the largest industry in Burlington, led by the electronics industries that had fueled an industrial boom during the... Read more |
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Food processing plants
FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY Food processing techniques have been evolving since the Stone Age. But it was not until these procedures met with the machinery, scientific discoveries, mass production, and population changes of the nineteenth century that the activity of food processing surged ahead and... Read more |
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Service industries
Service Industry DEFINITION OF THE SERVICE INDUSTRY GROWTH IN THE SERVICESDIVISION RECESSIONS AND THE SERVICESDIVISION HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE SERVICES DIVISION OFFSHORING FUTURE TRENDS IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY BIBLIOGRAPHY The United States is predominantly a service economy. As of 2008,... Read more |
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Industrial Safety The issue of industrial safety evolved concurrently with industrial development in the United States. Of central importance was the establishment of protective legislation, most significantly the worker's compensation laws, enacted at the start of the twentieth century, and the... Read more |
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electronics industry
electronics industry the business of creating, designing, producing, and selling devices such as radios, televisions, stereos, computers, semiconductors, transistors, and integrated circuits (see electronics ). As sales of electronic products in the United States grew from some $200 million in... Read more |
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Energy industries
ENERGY INDUSTRY ENERGY INDUSTRY. The U.S. Department of Energy recognizes and monitors eleven sources for the production of energy, including biomass, coal, electricity, geothermal energy, hydrogen, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear power, petroleum, solar power, and power wind. Not all of these... Read more |
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Carson
Carson city (1990 pop. 83,995), Los Angeles co., S Calif., an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1968. Oil refining is the major industry; fabricated metals, paper, and other products are manufactured. The California State Univ. Dominguez Hills is there.... Read more |
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The incredible shrinking credit system. (United States)
The incredible shrinking credit system IS AMERICA'S post...on a leaking fuel tank." How will shrinking credit affect the broader economy...suggests that the most vulnerable industries will be those where most customers... |
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The incredible shrinking American vacation
...24-2003 The incredible shrinking American vacationBy...known as the United States. In this country...microscopic, they're shrinking faster than revenues...according to the travel industry. Some 13 percent...In Washington ... |
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Chlorofluorocarbons and the incredible shrinking ozone.
...Chlorofluorocarbons and the Incredible Shrinking Ozone An unprecedented...environmentalists, and industry leaders from some...assistant secretary of state for environment...produced in the United States alone tops $750...banned in the United ... |
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The incredible shrinking petabyte: how compression technologies are helping...
...hardware and media are rapidly shrinking and becoming ubiquitous to...fact as old as the computing industry itself. Tubes to Tape: The...The baby boom in the United States in the 1950s forced the government...with 11 digits. UNIVAC was state-of-the-art, and ... |
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The incredible shrinking computer: PCs may still be getting faster, but many...
...most of the bulk. Right now, the shrinking-system trend is an AMD and Via...everything is price-driven in this industry Price alone will dictate the eventual...emphasis continues to be on powerful, state-of-the-art big boards in an... |
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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING FRONTMAN - The preening rock star of the past gives...
...star paradigm. And as the music industry contracts, so does the frontman...serendipitous, this simultaneous shrinking of budgets and frontmen, or it may...a swooning - borderline spastic - state of grace at the piano, he walks... |
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George F. Will: The incredible shrinking Russia
...gatherer economy, based on extraction industries -- oil, gas, minerals, furs...working-age population will be shrinking by up to 1 million people annually...envisioned the "withering away" of the state under mature communism. Instead... |
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AT&T's incredible shrinking plan.
...company executives are shrinking its cable portfolio...cable operators. Industry executives familiar...That has spurred industry critics to ask Congress...group of New York state systems centered in Buffalo. Elsewhere, industry executives ... |
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RIGHT VIEW: ; Incredible shrinking Russia
...gatherer economy, based on extraction industries - oil, gas, minerals, furs. Other...working-age population will be shrinking by up to 1 million people annually...envisioned the "withering away" of the state under mature communism. Instead... |
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The incredible shrinking gift card: fees eat up the value--at consumer's...
...card's original value. Some states, like Massachusetts and California...California is our biggest state and fees would have created...Nevada." Some in the retail industry think education, not legislation...that most retail gift cards state the expiration ... |
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