Those surveyed by the workforce solutions provider said that the hardest jobs to fill were in skilled trades, engineering and IT.

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Several insurance companies are expected to formally accuse JP Morgan Chase of engineering loans to Enron disguised as trades to allow the troubled energy company to disguise losses, the New York Times reports.

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Pay settlements of 3% -plus demanded by powerful German industrial trades unions, principally the engineering union IG Metall, are a huge new threat to stable prices in the principal anti-inflation European economy.

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Forty years ago, women with no apparent power, either transactional or economic, moved tens of thousands of women into business and the professions, into the skilled trades, into science, engineering, and, technology, onto police forces and into fire houses.

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TAFEs which will concentrate on trades, mainly different kinds of engineering.

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In the highly specialized world of scientific research, Khosla is a rare jack-of-all-trades, fluent in chemistry, genetics, engineering and microbiology.

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