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Unless China and India abruptly detour from their industrialization, prices are going to continue to skyrocket. "America's working families, already struggling to make ends meet, are desperate for leadership and cannot afford further inaction.". (Dowagiac News, MI)
New life for coalin quake's aftermath Jul 15, 2008
Coal has long fueled China's industrialization ambitions, given the country's more limited petroleum resources. Heavy reliance on coal has resulted in mounting environmental problems ranging from fresh-water contamination to deteriorating air quality. (Asia Times Online)
Green's Long History Jul 14, 2008
The 1700s saw the start of rapid industrialization and as such Benjamin Franklin - in the early 1700s - was concerned with sanitation and public drinking water and made those issues his lifelong concern. William Wordsworth an English poet in the late 1700s wrote he was appalled and outraged by the acts. (Suite101.com)
So you think you can dance, Bollywood? Jul 13, 2008
But analysts say that because China's arable land is shrinking every year due to industrialization, the country has no option but to turn to genetic modification technology to increase yields. "GMO technology is the only solution right now for the country to raise yield and reduce use of pesticide, which is harmful for the environment," said Huang Dafang. (Salon)
Psychiatrists identify 'climate change delusion' phenomenon... Jul 13, 2008
In fact, we had to get used to more gas from China, not less: "It is quite inevitable that during this (industrialisation) stage, China's energy consumption and CO2 emissions will be quite high.". Last month, India likewise issued its National Action Plan on Climate Change, and also rejected Rudd-style cuts. (The Drudge Report)
Schwarzenegger Blasts Bush: 'This administration did not believe in global warming'... Jul 13, 2008
al. get to reinvest newfound wealth from our "fines" to further along their industrialization and embolden their economies at OUR expense. Haven't we subsidized our competitors enough over the last fifty years. (The Drudge Report)
Shells Form Unique Climate Archive On The Ocean Floor Jul 13, 2008
He can also determine, however, how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is funnelled into the oceans and how much of this is the result of burning fossil fuels since the start of industrialization some 200 years ago ... For the first time, mussels can be used to accurately determine natural fluctuations in the CO2 content of the ocean in any specific year prior to the era of industrialization. (Science Daily)
View from the cop: Eye on crime Jul 13, 2008
That should be applied to cars, liquor, prescription drugs, library cards, voter registration, food, water, exercise, industrialization, computers ... That should be applied to cars, liquor, prescription drugs, library cards, voter registration, food, water, exercise, industrialization, computers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Food for Thought Jul 8, 2008
The same goes for the extraordinary industrialization and global flattening of our culinary economy, which Waters s focus on community gardening, seasonal eating, and local markets is meant to combat. Heavily concentrated industries demand expansive and centralized government. (The American Conservative)
Cambridge Historical Society welcomes new executive director Jul 8, 2008
Mon Jul 07, 2008, 11:57 AM EDT. The venerable institution of the Cambridge Historical Society is excited to announce that its new director has returned. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Uganda: Govt Wants to Ease Cost of Doing Business Jul 7, 2008
The Government also plans to issue a sh20b industrialisation bond for UDB to provide guarantees for lending, especially to the agriculture sector. AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over , plus more than , who are responsible for their own reporting and views. (allAfrica.com)
A biofuel food-price bombshell Jul 4, 2008
"Additionally, natural-rubber supplies are becoming increasingly unstable as a result of rapidly expanding growth in China and India, decline in rubber production due to industrialization in Southeast Asia, and increasing utilization of this material by former Soviet Bloc countries. Estimates indicate that demand will exceed supply in 2020 by approximately 15 percent.". So now, I can't inflate my tires without pondering the global economy and the perils of tire price inflation. (Salon)
The N.P.P. [and U.P.] turned out to be a damp squib Jul 3, 2008
Plans for industrialization and radical social reform involved the production of hydro-electric power on a massive scale. It was the purpose of the Volta River Project to provide this power with enough capacity to spare for export to neighbouring states. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Current targets unlikely to avoid 'dangerous climate change' Jul 3, 2008
However, industrialisation brings other benefits. High standards of living lead to longer, healthier lives. (ABC Online)
Energy prices pinch Wyo folks (36) Jun 29, 2008
The world just witnessed one of the strongest economic growth periods in history with the industrialization of India, China and other developing nations. China accounted for half of the growth in global energy consumption in 2007, according to BP.. (Casper Star-Tribune)
Rising energy prices pinch Wyoming Jun 29, 2008
He said the industrialization of China and India has created one of the strongest economic growth periods in history. "They're trying to play catch-up and build the infrastructure that we already have," Finley said. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
'Oil shock' stems from fears of future shortfall: consultant Jun 27, 2008
These concerns -- that global oil supplies won't be able to keep up with the rapid industrialization and consumer-spending growth of emerging markets -- are overshadowing other fundamental factors that would typically dampen oil prices. These include discoveries of potentially large oil fields in Brazil and a drop in some developed countries' demand for oil, which tend to be "discounted" by the market, according to Yergin. (Yahoo News -- Oil and Gas)
Meyer recounts 'Last Days of Old Beijing' Jun 23, 2008
He dedicates four of the 21 chapters to recounting the city's past, starting from when "the land belonged to dragons" and progressing up to the industrialization of the Maoist period and the beginnings of state ownership of homes. In 1949, at the Founding of the People's Republic of China, 77 percent of Beijing's 1. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Awaiting Japan's global vision Jun 21, 2008
In the late 19th century they knew Japan needed to build a "rich nation and strong army," so they mobilized the population and took them on a forced march to industrialization and international prominence. Fueled by their success, they agreed in the 1930s that Japan should be a great empire and should expand to the limits of its power. (Boston Globe)
Hope Station to celebrate Juneteenth Saturday Jun 20, 2008 Copper Trends Favor Freeport Jun 17, 2008 Canada's productivity numbers reveal a real structural weakness Jun 17, 2008 Champion's work returns to Niles Jun 7, 2008 More of this story» Jun 6, 2008 Trail tracks Chicago labor roots May 30, 2008 Bias Against Women? May 27, 2008 * Amazons protector steps down May 25, 2008 The Great Fall of China May 25, 2008 Examining the coming up of more premier engineering Institutes May 25, 2008 Ye olde credit crunch May 23, 2008 The Sum of Many Hopes and Fears About the Energy Resources of the Middle East May 22, 2008 The Presidency of William McKinley May 17, 2008 Nkrumah was not Adolf Hitler May 15, 2008 Guess Who’s Speaking At the Local Mosque? May 14, 2008 Andrew Anthony on the IQ test May 12, 2008 News AnalysisS: Paris, May 1968: The revolution that never was May 12, 2008 * [ HARDCOVER: US ] Is the Chinese Communist Party fit for survival? May 11, 2008 Roundtable is keeping it Civil May 10, 2008 Fire Brick Museum to be dedicated May 18 May 10, 2008 Achieving Middle-Income Status: What are the options? May 8, 2008 China Ascendant Part III May 8, 2008 What Is Nationalism? May 7, 2008 Service & sacrifice May 6, 2008 Time for China-Japan ties to forge ahead May 5, 2008 Flagbearers On Energy Apr 23, 2008 What if they are right? Apr 23, 2008 Likening Nkrumah to Hitler: the ignorant effusions of a Danquah-cult worshiper Apr 21, 2008 CPP Warns Against New Scramble for Africa Apr 18, 2008 US power failure a 'dismal' turning point Apr 17, 2008 Men explain things to me Apr 16, 2008 The Asiatic vs. Italian fake hair showdown Apr 12, 2008 * What are Taiwan's cultural goals? Apr 11, 2008 Letters for Thursday, April 10, 2008 Apr 11, 2008 Nycomed Chooses BT HP Alliance for Outsourcing Contract Apr 10, 2008 Chain reactionThe lethal legacy of a Colombian political killing 60 years on Apr 10, 2008 Strong yuan maybe China's savior Apr 8, 2008 Project, says its director, will ‘explain story behind successful enterprise’ Apr 4, 2008 Stealing the steeple Apr 4, 2008 Russians reject calling '30s famine a genocide Apr 3, 2008 Nature editorial Apr 3, 2008 'Kyoto II' Climate Talks Open In Bangkok Apr 1, 2008 Post a comment Mar 31, 2008 Riding out the storm Mar 29, 2008 An urgent need to think outside the box. Mar 27, 2008 Fido likes it free-range, organic - and home-cooked Mar 26, 2008 Red Kite Rebound in Copper Death Spiral Just Another Born-Again Experience Mar 26, 2008 After this, nothing was the same Mar 23, 2008 Chinas miracle Mar 20, 2008 Bailouts Run In Morgan's Blood Mar 17, 2008 Oil And Ghana's Future Mar 15, 2008 Part 2: Long-term effects of the Civil War Mar 15, 2008 Wind energy use on the rise Mar 7, 2008 Art goes 'camp' Mar 6, 2008 Pirates Q&A with Dejan Kovacevic Mar 5, 2008 China demand to drive Aussie commodity exports Mar 4, 2008 Akufo-Addo on Tech & Industrialization Feb 26, 2008 A Fuller Medicine Chest Feb 26, 2008 Our Education System is Producing Emotional Elites Feb 25, 2008 South Korea's new leader wants better US relations Feb 25, 2008 Chretien: Canada in tough spot over Kosovo Feb 23, 2008 THE OUTSIDER: Be proud, Mr. President Feb 21, 2008 Prescott warns critics off China Feb 18, 2008 History in jeopardy: Fairgrounds top new list of endangered Missoula sites Feb 18, 2008 Vox: Rising food demand shows growth in, er, growth stocks Feb 15, 2008
Also, Big Brother Big Sister of the Capital Region, YWCA, Hope Station and the Tri-County Chapter of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America will distribute books to children for the summer reading program. There will be a blood pressure screening by the Cumberland Goodwill EMS. About 10 nonprofit groups will be present with information about what they do and how volunteers can get involved. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Students of Canada's Top History Teachers Take Up Arms and Go To Trial to Get Better Grades Jun 19, 2008
Isabelle Bergeron and Sylvain Christin Rigaud, QC From the creation of the first electric motor to the steam-power-driven flight by the Wright brothers, the Industrialization of Canada gave rise to modernization. Now, a class of Grade 10 students from College Bourget are going back in time to discover the monumental achievements made during the Industrialization of Canada from 1850 to 1930. (Canada Newswire)
But those were the days before emerging-market powers began their rapid industrialization. China and other emerging economies such as India (currently accounting for just 3% of worldwide demand but already the fastest-growing copper consumer) should continue to offset weakness in developed economies. (Forbes)
Then, led by rapid industrialization, strong business investment, and big spending on schooling and health care, we rapidly closed the gap. By 1984, we produced 91 per cent as much per hour as the Americans. (Globe and Mail)
Was Champion trying to record the nature around her - at a time when it was being overshadowed by industrialization and urban growth. "Niles at that time was really at its hey-day," Bainbridge explains - with the river powering various plants and the city experiencing growth. (Niles Star, MI)
"As for commercial shipping, at the turn of the last century, Michigan shipped more bulk goods - coal, iron ore, lumber, grain - "than the combined trade of the eastern and western seaboard states," he said. "The Great Lakes region contributed in a very significant way to industrialization. "Pott, executive director of the Fort Miami Heritage Society in St. Joseph, joined Priscilla U. Byrns Heritage Center more than six years ago.He previously served as curator at the Michigan Maritime Museum in... (Dowagiac News, MI)
The industrialization of the city and the unions' efforts that followed transformed Chicago into what poet Carl Sandburg famously labeled the "City of the Big Shoulders.". "Chicago is the immigrant industrial city," Jeffrey Helgeson, the Labor Trail's administrative director, wrote in a recent e-mail. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Even after accounting for a range of other factors such as industrialization, urbanization, education and income the impact of granting of women's suffrage on per capita state government expenditures and revenue was startling. Per capita state government spending after accounting for inflation had been flat or falling during the 10 years before women began voting. (Fox News)
Last week, in a move widely seen as a snub to Silva, Lula placed Mangabeira Unger, known for his controversial ideas on development and industrialization, in control of a new sustainable development scheme for the Amazon. Simultaneously, several Amazonian politicians, among them Blairo Maggi, one of the worlds leading soy producers, mounted a lobby to overthrow measures that banned banks from lending money to fund projects in areas of illegal deforestation. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The LAT leads with the "twin turns" of the American economy, spurred by global industrialization, as the financial and technologies sectors face a steady downturn. These trends are "letting once-struggling behemoths such as U.S. Steel Corp. put modern marvels such as Microsoft Corp. to shame," the piece reports, noting that U.S. Steel's stock has risen 1,000 percent "in recent years." In national economic terms, the industrial boom is only bittersweet news; it's pushing up incomes but not... (Slate)
They are supposed to provide engineering and scientific manpower to meet our countrys increased industrialization. The colleges will also admit many foreign students for their M. Tech. (MyNews.in)
Industrialisation brought new problems. The aftermath of the Napoleonic War could have led to a boom, but exports were soon stifled by a wave of international competition enabled by the end of hostilities. (BBC News -- UK)
This is what Winston Churchill might have called a mystery within a mystery, and it probably can only be put right by speeding up industrialization to the extent that these reserves can be fully monetized, by which I mean that events take place which indicate the true value of these reserves if (or when) an optimal investment program is carried out. (A good example here is oil from the tar sands of Northern Canada. (Energy Pulse, CO)
As such, he truly did seem to mark the end of an era in American Politics - an era that is now most commonly referred to as "The Gilded Age," a phrase coined by Mark Twain which referred to the growth in wealth and industrialization that marked the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With McKinley's election to the Presidency in 1896, taking office in 1897, the era known as "The Progressive Era" had unofficially begun. (Suite101.com)
Here was a leader who,from the very moment he became head of government,realised that education and industrialisation were crucial to the whole matrix of development and set out to propel Ghana and Africa to greater heights. Here was a leader whose mind was riveted on the common good and not on his own selfish interests. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Hitlers final solution was the concentration camps and the industrialization of mass murder. MUHAMMADS TEACHINGS OF PURE JEWISH HATRED FROM THE HADITHS. (Human Events Online)
One foot goes up one rung - industrialisation - and that leads to the next rung, improving schools, etc. . (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
To many critics, all this was only the final twitch of a quasi-religious socialist utopianism that had long inspired workers and intellectuals rebelling against the pains of industrialization. Other critics preferred psychological explanations: May 1968 was a Freudian fling of adolescent revolt against Mom and Dad. (International Herald Tribune)
As the challenges brought about by Chinas industrialization and rapid development will only increase, the failure to allow more diversity in the political sphere X in other words to democratize outside the party X may very well be the seeds of the CPPs demise, and the 60 to 100 years it says are needed before democracy can be fully implemented may just be too long a wait for a population whose demands, expectations and awareness will continue to grow. But as Shambaugh demonstrates in this... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
DiGiuseppe noted that the Civil War re-defined many facets of American life, including politics, the arts, medicine, sports, military tactics, transportation, industrialization and communication. Comments Thank you for the abuse report. (Amesbury News, MA)
With increased industrialization, the fire brick industry similarly boomed, eventually resulting in creation of the aforementioned seven fire brick companies within Audrain County. But changing business dynamics throughout the decades ultimately impacted what was once the centerpiece of local economic activity. (Mexico Ledger, MO)
countries has come via the industrialisation route hence, what is stopping Ghana from joining the global. trend towards industrialisation ... competitive global economy without achieving industrialisation. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
The key contradictions of the globalization process in modern history sovereignty vs. self-determination, rapid industrialization vs. preserving the environment, state vs. religion, migration/urbanization vs. traditional life, commercialization vs. indigenous culture are all reflected in the struggle for Tibet. It would be wise for Beijing to pursue a genuine dialogue with the Dalai Lama, not to save the summer Olympics but to save and secure Tibet in the greater Chinese multi-ethnic family. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)
It has often been caused by industrialisation and modernisation. Indeed it has been suggested that the emergence of fascism in Nazi Germany can be traced back to discontent at the modernisation in France, and the idea that this threatened the traditional rural German way of life. (Suite101.com)
Settlement houses offered social services food, shelter and schooling for the urban poor and immigrants buffeted by the industrialization of America. Jane Addams was the founder of the settlement movement in America; she spoke of and to young and affluent Americans who yearned to make a difference, and find meaning in their lives. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
As the country pushed toward industrialization, it also caused serious pollution and sharp increases in greenhouse gas emission. As a frontrunner in industrialization Japan has gained a wealth of experience, knowledge and technology, particularly in saving energy. (Xinhuanet, China)
It is not surprising that the man chosen by President Nkrumah to lead this university at its establishment (Dr RP Baffour) had a life long interest in Energy and its relevance for industrialization. This University has, since those days, produced graduates who have served this nation very well, manning with distinction key national institutions in the energy sector, such as Volta River Authority, the Electricity Company of Ghana, Tema Oil Refinery, GOIL, GNPC, BOST, Energy Commission, Energy... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Up the food chain are those who acknowledge that the long-term trends are real, even that the weather patterns may be starting to change, but who don't believe that industrialization of the planet has anything to do with it. And a step beyond, many people understand that change is happening and that we're a part of it. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Indeed more of them came to live in Ghana after Independence than before it". If Nkrumah were Hilter incarnate, where were the concentration and extermination camps? He did not invade his neighbours as Hitler did Poland, Russia, Norway, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Yugoslavia (Serbia), Czechoslovakia, Lativa, Lithuiana, Estonia, Ukraine, Greece and Denmark among others, often in very bloody wars. Where was the equivalent of the "Reichskristallnacht" when Kofi Banda was shot by an NLM supporter... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
In the case of the India Summit, the Delhi Declaration appears designed primarily to facilitate Indias quest for rapid industrialisation and development while implicitly seeking to cement Africas position in the global economy as the provider of raw materials for the industrialisation of other economies ... Specifically, the AU must ensure that the industrial goods from India are of the highest quality and can complement Africas own efforts at industrialisation and development. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Fundamental forces were moving the American economy in the late 1970s, including debt from the Vietnam War, the acceleration of de-industrialization, the slow but continuing deterioration of American post-war global economic dominance, and finally a spike in the price of oil brought about by the US domestic oil production peak in 1973 ... For the next century and half, industrialization swept Western Europe, the United States, and some other small parts of the globe ... Industrialization spread... (Asia Times Online)
They were actually about quite a few different things, the six or seven out by then, but I began to speak only of the most recent on that summer day in 2003, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, my book on the annihilation of time and space and the industrialization of everyday life. He cut me off soon after I mentioned Muybridge. (Asia Times Online)
One of the oddest consequences of the historically high price is that idyllic corners of Britain -- a nation that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution -- are suddenly feeling the strain of Asia's industrialization. The pathos. (Salon)
Can we begin the industrialization of culture. Judging from the situation at Huashan Culture Park, in the current democratic society not even the cultural sector is privileged enough to waste limited national resources for no particular reason. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
"END QUOTE. I have lost nothing. I win. Believe you are very angry. Try to get better. Free Speech trumps God wrote on Apr 10, 2008 7:58 AM:I do not agree with anyone using my Lord's name in vain. On the other hand we do have free speech. sdraoul wrote on Apr 10, 2008 7:58 AM:Virginian is at it again. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 with its base policy--no more slavery. Lincoln was elected on a no slavery platform. The Confederate States of America did not exist as a nation -- exactly... (North County Times)
Nycomed is taking advantage of the BT HP Alliance s economies of scale, skilled staff and industrialization of operations to consolidate and rationalize our infrastructure services and technology infrastructure, said Agnetha Mattisson, senior vice president, Corporate IS/IT, Nycomed. Together we will establish a robust and scalable environment that will support Nycomed s goals to grow the business. (BusinessWire)
According to Mr Petro, "If Gaitan had governed, Colombia would have become part of the phase of Latin American populism which triumphed in Argentina and Mexico. "As well as land reform, that populism created citizenship, industrialisation and a strong state, which Colombia could never attain precisely because of Gaitan's murder. Today's violence is the same violence that originated in that era. (BBC News -- Americas)
Over the past three decades, the Chinese leadership has pursued a modernization program largely built on traditional economic development models: heavy industrialization, labor- and capital-intensive manufacturing industries, export-led growth, low labor cost and high environmental damages. As part of China's development paradigm, Beijing is following a basic premise laid out by old school mercantilism on the accumulation of wealth: export as much as possible while discouraging imports where... (Asia Times Online)
However, this income differential has decreased as demand from industrialization eventually increased the wages of unskilled labor. Occupation shifts, education and enhanced intermediation account for 39 percent of income and inequality changes. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
One of the oddest consequences of the historically high price is that idyllic corners of Britain - a nation that gave birth to an early industrial revolution - are suddenly feeling the strain of Asia's industrialization. "Churches have become pretty savvy at protecting property inside their buildings, like the altar ware and money in boxes," said Pitt of Ecclesiastical, "but now the most valuable thing these churches have is being taken away piece by piece, and that is tearing away the very... (International Herald Tribune)
Others argue authorities set out to eradicate private landowners as a social class and that the Soviet Union sought to pay for its rapid industrialization with grain exports at the expense of starving millions of its own people. "There is no historical proof that the famine was organized along ethnic lines," the Russian State Duma resolution said. (Boston Globe)
One is their much-criticized approach to currency exchange rates, which some economists say overstates the impact of industrialization in developing countries. Another, it turns out, is not so much a problem with the scenarios themselves, but with the way some of them are seen as being 'business-as-usual' in other words, what would happen if we do nothing differently. (Nature News Service)
One major issue to be tackled is the reluctance of big developing nations such as India and China to agree to any measures that might curb their rapid industrialisation. Negotiators will also have to work out how to deal with the United States -- the only rich nation not to have signed up to Kyoto -- given that President George W. Bush will be leaving the White House after November's election. (Planet Ark, United States)
Fast economic growth is normal in an industrialisation phase, not good (and potentially dangerous). Now if you divide the GDP by the population, china has a fairly POOR GDP / inhabitants ratio. (International Herald Tribune)
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Skip directly to: Search Box, , , Text Version. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah attempted to use our wealth in raw materials as a springboard for the countrys overall economic development and industrialisation, and when commodity prices fell, accumulation of exorbitant external debt became the order of the day and has continued till today ... For the vision of achieving middle-income-status and industrialisation to become a reality, the manufacturing sector which is a more efficient vehicle for rapid and sustained economic progress is the best way... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Industrialization led to a dedicated pet-food industry; the first mass-produced dog biscuit is said to have been introduced in 1860. What followed was the rise of the era of processed food, climaxing some time in the past century with wild health claims: Never mind that dogs in the wild thrived on half-rotten carcasses - even veterinarians were saying that the only kind of food that could supply your dog (or cat) with all the necessary vitamins was brown gruel you tipped out of a can. (Globe and Mail)
chief executive officer of U.S. Global Investors Inc., a San Antonio-based family of mutual funds that invests in natural resources, says the rapid industrialization of the developing world is what's driving prices. We see the growth story in emerging markets as the key long-term driver for copper, nickel and other commodities,'' he says. (Bloomberg)
I'm equally sure that I had little idea of the social history that underpinned Middlemarch, which was written at the beginning of the 1870s, but looked back four decades to chart the pace of industrialisation in Britain and the impact it had on its class system. I was a student before I knew anything much about George Eliot, or Marian Evans, and her own struggle with duty and desire. (Guardian Unlimited)
Chinas industrialisation effort took place in the early 1950s ... For example, taking advantage of its abundant labour, Chinas export-oriented industrialisation policy was initially concentrated in the labour-intensive industries. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
The approach was especially forward-thinking in that it coincided with spreading industrialization in the United States. By 1902, Morgan was the country's largest railroad magnate. (Forbes)
In an age of industrialization, and computerization, we cannot afford power outages ... We need to embark on a massive industrialization of the economy and target the export market, especially, the developing economies. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
The shortage of labor created by the war pushed industrialization in the Northeast and the spread of mechanized farming in the Middle West and the opening of new farms and mines in the West, with post-war decommissioned soldiers facing unemployment ... Creditors in the North insisted on cotton as the only exportable cash crop and the surplus of low-wage Southern labor prevented any market incentive for industrialization ... As a result, even the profit from industrialization of raw material... (Asia Times Online)
Although the industrialization of the 1930s led to the decline of wind energy as a whole, it also sparked the development of larger, more power, wind turbines the first of which appeared in Denmark around 1890. One of the first turbines to appear in the U.S. was in 1940 on a hilltop in Vermont, called Grandpa's Knob. (McPherson Sentinel, KS)
In her lecture, Lovell will include Homer's scenes of the high-society people in fancy dress against natural backdrops of waterfronts and mountains, capturing the tension of trying to get away from the industrialization of the city while re-creating its social atmosphere in a rough environment. Lovell, who received a Ph. (Daily Iowan, IA)
(3) encourages participation for all Americans to learn how the Forbes Campaign, the opening of the Gateway to the West, the industrialization of America, and the environmental transformation of Pittsburgh helped to make America; and. (4) commends the contributions of those who have followed trails to Pittsburgh for 250 years to shape the world we live in and the Nation we have become. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Continued strong economic growth, industrialization and urbanization in China are putting pressure on domestic resources,'' the forecaster said in its March quarter report. This has the potential to make China a strategically important player in global markets and to provide increased export opportunities for Australia's commodity industries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Akpafu-Todzi (V/R), Feb 25, GNA - Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said integrated technology and industrialization would be his priorities should he become the next president ... Mrs Rita Tani Iddi, Deputy Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines, said government was reconsidering plans for feasibility studies to assess the country's potential in iron ore and its development for industrialization. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Notes Celgene chief financial officer Dave Gryska, 52: "There's a strong correlation between the incidence of blood cancer and industrialization. People are getting older, and the patient population is growing.". Adds Celgene founder and chief executive Sol J. Barer, 60: "This not a cure, but Revlimid makes overall survival longer and longer and longer. It's the diabetes model we are turning it into a chronic disease. We have significant upside potential. Does the kind of growth we've posted in... (SmartMoney)
The rule is very simple but yet, it is a challenge that Ghana and Africa have failed to overcome and if we fail in our quest to overcome such a challenge, we can kiss good bye to economic development through industrialisation. Whilst the likes of South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan focussed investments in high quality technological innovation together with the development of the requisite human capital, Ghana and Africa are busy selling and exporting their raw materials for peanuts under... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
"Our great nation achieved what no other nation ever achieved in history. In the shortest period of time, this nation achieved both industrialization and democratization." But Lee expressed concerns about the vulnerability of certain sectors, in particular, agriculture. Sue Chang is a MarketWatch reporter in San Francisco. (MarketWatch)
With increasing industrialisation on a global scale, everyone is grabbing resources, hence the US invasion of Iraq for it's oil (which is why it never had a reconstruction plan - it never intended to leave), and then the invasion of Serbia for it's coal supplies and gas (newly discovered in southern Kosovo - TRILLIONS of cubic metres of gas). Most of the mineral wealth is smack bang under Mitrovica, the Serb dominated part of Kosovo. (CTV.ca)
The president thinks we are ready for industrialisation, which is looming. He might be moving ahead of himself but he has every right to be optimistic about future prospects. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Asked how China reacted when challenged over such issues, he said: "We get a proper debate about it as long as we're not trying to lecture them all the time - as if the history of European countries had been absolutely pristine white on human rights. It was the international community that said to China 'can you talk to North Korea because we can't and they won't listen to us.' John PrescottFormer Deputy Prime Minister "We have to watch the stage of development, we see how industrialisation is... (BBC News -- UK)
The mill was important to the early industrialization and economic development of Missoula and western Montana. The historic employee houses were to be destroyed, but were recently purchased by an individual who has indicated he would like the district listed in the National Register of Historic Places. (Missoulian, MT)
But population growth, industrialization and depleting water supplies robs the world of 20 million hectares of arable land every year. That's not as much as it sounds about half a percentage point but a decade of that will have an effect. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
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