Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.
The San Fernando Valley has plenty of manufacturing zones, especially in the 29th Congressional District.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.
The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.
We're losing all kinds of white-collar jobs, all kinds of jobs in addition to manufacturing jobs, which we're losing by the droves in my state.
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
Coal is tied to steel jobs, trucking jobs, and manufacturing jobs.
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.