Sentences with phrase «in dying industries»

But the notable lack of any kind of strategic industrial, labour & (re) training policies has failed much of the workforce — from workers in dying industries abandoned to the depredations of unions («once a steelworker, always a steelworker»), all the way to students who still believe 4 years of college & a back - breaking student loan somehow guarantees their future.
These aren't jobs in a dying industry such as manufacturing (don't believe it's dying?
If you speak to experts in the dying industry, they will tell you indigo is not colorfast: It washes out, fades rather rapidly — more rapidly than a designed synthetic dye.
They ask me why my style changed such that I now invest in things like NACCO (NC) that is in a dying industry like coal.
Any time I think of the Berkshire situation — savvy outside investor targets a company in a dying industry in a small New England town — I can never help thinking of Other People's Money, with Danny DeVito's «Ben Graham» style value - investing analysis to the company's management and his Prayer - for - the - Dead speech at the end to the shareholders.
The standard industry feed is extremely low - quality meat, which can violate some states» animal cruelty laws, but keeps the costs down in a dying industry.
If fossil fuels will eventually run out, (a common theme if you believe the earth is round) then investment in fossil fuel replacement is infinitely cheaper than re-investing in a dying industry.
We are simply in a dying industry which will be a lot smaller in 30 - 40 years.
Are a number of your Top 20 clients in a dying industry or one that's growing by leaps and bounds?
We are not in a dying industry, I think we are in the right place at the right time.

Not exact matches

This assertion may offend die - hard fans, but Klein's work has had enormous influence in the industry.
(2) Find ways to spur growth in energy industry so Albertan and Canadian economies don't wither and die.
Pace Industries, out of Fayetteville, Ark., had taken the die - casting plant over from its former owner, then in bankruptcy, and had invested a substantial sum in it.
The sophisticated fund - raising experts at Share Systems Inc., ensconced in Boston - area offices a mile from Harvard University, may not have much in common with the operators of the die - casting machines at Pace Industries» Cast - Tech Division, in rural Monroe City, Mo..
Retail continues to be an industry where the «innovate or die» adage has proven true for old giants (think Sports Authority or Circuit City) and has shown its value in creating new ones (like Amazon).
The company is in an industry where, if that machine fails, hundreds of customers will likely die.
«Gamgort, the CEO of Keurig who'll be taking over the combined enterprise, is a miracle man in what many people believe is a dying industry, the consumer packaged goods business,» Cramer said.
Six people died and more than 20 were injured when a crane collapsed at a Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea on Monday, Yonhap News Agency said.
When Interplex Industries showed interest in acquiring a small French competitor, some at the tool - and - die manufacturer in New York City were apprehensive.
Mukesh Ambani took over as chairman of Reliance Industries when his father, the company's founder, died in 2002.
Theodore Levitt, in a legendary 1960 Harvard Business Review article, criticized the dying railroad industry for this very sin.
«In this industry,» he says, «you literally have to have that feeling like I'm going to die if I don't do this.»
«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»
Worse, Heins» description of a big screen in the workplace calls back memories of the dying PC industry.
Then, in 2008, a large flock of migratory ducks landed and died in a settling pond for Syncrude's oil sands waste product — setting in motion, though it was hard to predict at the time, industry - activist tensions that would put northern Alberta's pay dirt at the forefront of a blistering debate.
I don't know about other industries but in the real estate space [I play a support role] traditional marketing methods are dying and / or cost prohibitive — print magazines, direct mail, fliers, door hangers etc — I can see why other forms of marketing would be imperative [especially when there is a brand and some form of uniqueness to the product or service] but it's been my experience that the public views real estate peeps as «all the same» and therefor will often choose the 1st one they come across when looking for homes — online.
By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.
Both have passed on, with Turkel dying of a heart attack in 2009 and Kail passing away from lung cancer in 2013, but their reputation as the industry's most revered sales duo remains intact.
Sure, they can't speak English, but they don't come here with the hidden agenda of trying to get us to «convert or die»... I swear, I work in technology, which is a very, very diverse industry... And I still have to meet a nice, sincere Muslim that does not want to make your life difficult.
The day Merle Haggard died, I found myself talking to a friend who has served as a makeup artist in Nashville's music industry for more years than she would like to admit.
Deregulation of heavy industry's air pollution has resulted in acid rain and dying lakes in both nations.
Briefly, al Qaeda die - hards have quietly infiltrated various businesses, industries and government jobs in over two - thousand cities and towns.
She died in 1950 in a society dominated by manufacturing industries.
During the past decade, ICPF has donated or placed over $ 11.5 million in corrugated equipment (CAD systems, sample tables, testing systems, presses, rotary die cutters, stackers, dryers and related equipment) and other resources to advance college and university curricula to better prepare those students planning to enter the corrugated industry.
Plastic pallets specially designed to be compatible with many die cutting / printing presses in the folding carton and commercial printing industries.
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Kocher - Beck is the world market leader in rotary die cutting technology and supplier for the label printing, envelope manufacturing, sheet - fed and reel - to - reel offset printing industries.
Rotary die - cutters are used in two main industries, these being the manufacture of corrugated packaging that has high printing and die - cutting requirements, and the production of in - store displays from corrugated board.
In the search for ways to prevent catastrophic injuries, nothing has buoyed the industry's scientists more than the mammoth, open - ended research project in California that has gathered revealing data from the autopsies performed on every horse that has died at the state's five thoroughbred tracks over the last four years (nearly 900 so farIn the search for ways to prevent catastrophic injuries, nothing has buoyed the industry's scientists more than the mammoth, open - ended research project in California that has gathered revealing data from the autopsies performed on every horse that has died at the state's five thoroughbred tracks over the last four years (nearly 900 so farin California that has gathered revealing data from the autopsies performed on every horse that has died at the state's five thoroughbred tracks over the last four years (nearly 900 so far).
Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?
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There is also a new message in beef industry communications, expressly raised in the Food Safety News piece by Nancy Donley (mother of a child who tragically died of E. coli), that those who oppose LBT are somehow standing in the way of food safety that protects all of us.
Tigers is a new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza taking on the industry with the help of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.
Mr. Shanahan, 76, formerly of Arlington Heights, who helped craft savings and loan industry policies in the 1980s, died of a blood clot on the brain, Friday, Sept. 19, in Naples, Fla., where he lived for several years.
Last week, on the same day that Britain's best loved drug smuggler died, I received an invitation to a cannabis «industry forum» in Portland, Oregon.
These range from policies on fire prevention to drastically cut the number of people who die in blazes every year, for example, or facing down the housebuilding industry to ensure that homes become more accessible for disabled people.
A reform group is asking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission to probe cash donations to state lawmakers by the pharmaceutical industry, to find out if there's a connection with some pro-consumer bills dying in legislative committees.
The Court of Appeals upheld a $ 3 million verdict in the asbestos - related death of a former pipefitter at General Motor Co.'s engine plant in Tonawanda, who died at age 77 in 2011, well before the decision, which was anxiously awaited by industry and business groups across the country.
The movie industry was blessed with many cinemas but lost them to churches and banks — after the cinema culture died in the late 80s to 90s as a result of curfews as well as sale of government cinemas to foreigners.
Ken Purchase, the former MP for Wolverhampton North East, who has died aged 77, was one of the last of what was once a widespread category of working - class Labour MPs who represented the area in which he was born, having secured election to parliament with an established experience in town - hall politics and a career working in local industry.
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