Around the world, auto factories are considered an economic development prize not only because the factories themselves usually employ more than 1, 000 workers at good wages, but because they attract auto-component factories to build nearby, generating thousands more jobs.

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He asserts that component suppliers have seen calendar Q1 iPhone orders cut to the 25-30 million range, from 35-40 million, due mostly to component over-build in the December quarter.

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Each, I said, was a critical and probably inseparable component of our larger goal to build a sustainable model for journalism.

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The new push is to build products that are less demanding on underlying component specification.

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Not only does it lend globetrotters a hand, but Qualcomm claims the component carries a few other "world's first" features that allow manufacturers to build thinner products with improved antenna performance, battery life and connection reliability.

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Oftentimes, the upfront capital expenditure can be so huge and the margins are small enough (and shrink over time as the component is rapidly commoditized) that the companies who would build these factories cannot raise sufficient investment capital to cover the costs.

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One frequently overlooked component of the military vote in Ohio is the tens of thousands of workers employed by companies that build or contribute to weapons programs.

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