Hints and tips:
...The “Uber Elevate” summit, which convenes entrepreneurs, manufacturers and regulators in the aerospace industry, has just held its second edition....
...A few years before the Civil War, the Rock River Iron Works was making agricultural implements in a complex of buildings along South Franklin Street....
...There are already signs that Mexico knows the leverage that America’s $18bn in annual agricultural exports to the country provides in the coming Nafta talks....
...and local government the cuts come to an end....
...Drew Greenblatt surveys the shop floor of his small factory in a down-at-heel district of Baltimore, Maryland, where two workers are using a large steel-bending robot....
...renegotiated labour contracts between the industry and the United Automobile Workers union....
...It’s half time, America. And our second half is about to begin....
...margins. 3M, the diversified manufacturer, forecast organic sales growth of 5.5-7.5 per cent in 2011, undershooting Wall Street expectations, while United Technologies, another industrial conglomerate,...
...Goods exports, largely of agricultural products, have staged a recovery although they still account for less than 8 per cent of GDP....
...“No country as economically mature, large and diverse as America can prosper with only 8 per cent of workers in the manufacturing sector, which is what our number is today,” says Leo Hindery, the former...
...As chairman of AT&T and its predecessor companies from 1990 to 2007, Mr Whitacre oversaw a series of mergers and acquisitions that created America’s largest provider of local, long-distance and wireless...
...Recent trade infractions range from iron and steel tariffs in Russia, to massive automobile subsidies in the US and Europe, to agricultural restrictions in Argentina and Brazil....
...Still, no one expects agricultural commodity prices to drop back to their lows of a decade ago....
...Then I was told, no, you can’t ask the British government because British Aerospace is private....
...Quite how many labels you can squeeze on to a packet of beans or an apple is another matter, of course. And labelling schemes are notoriously complex and tricky to implement....
...Today in Africa governments, local and national, provide the majority of school places but up to one third of schooling is provided by churches and faith groups, and hundreds of businesses and charity foundations...
...Yaakov argues that that sort of local competitiveness is at the heart of the Israeli drive. But there have also been other spurs to Israeli innovation....
...Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), used to represent the aristocrats of the US union movement – mostly well-paid blue-collar...
...(We still don’t know when the government plans to implement that.)...
...When he sets off to North America today ? a trip that takes in Canada, Mexico and a New York meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations with US President George W.?Bush ?...
...The United Nations-sponsored elections taking place in Afghanistan this weekend represent the first stab at nation-wide democracy since the Soviet invasion a quarter of a century ago....
...Traditionally one of the world's most isolated economies, Latin America's largest country appears finally on the way to punching its weight in the global market....
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