Today's hi-tech industry owes as much to him as it does to an LS Lowry scarred landscape.

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"Microsoft's political giving philosophy is that we give to incumbent candidates who work on issues important to the hi-tech industry, and our political giving reflects that, " says Microsoft spokeswoman Ginny Terzano.

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South Africa's trade unions recently complained that domestic industry was being flattened by cheap imports of hi-tech goods, computers, telecoms equipment and the like.

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Hi-tech, high growth, low carbon, this is exactly the kind of industry ministers are desperate for.

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Mr Azman still argues against selling poorly performing hi-tech firms, such as SilTerra, lest that deprive Malaysia of the associated industry and technology transfers and the jobs that come with them.

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Given the strength of the British motorsport industry, there are many opportunities to link our traditional industrial strengths with hi-tech industries to build a strong partnership for the future.

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Mr. PATRICK ANDERSON (Principal and CEO, Anderson Economic Group): If you really go around and you try to add up all the jobs that are directly related to the automobile industry, you come up with an enormous fraction for any industry of the total amount of employment and also very high wage employment and also very hi-tech employment.

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