Having grown up in the old economy, DoveBid also has the know-how to offer all sorts of ancillary services, such as evaluating assets for buyers and helping them to work out how to ship heavy factory-equipment from, say, Chicago to Shanghai.

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In part, we still have a tax system that was designed for factory-heavy manufacturers.

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At the JP Morgan Conference, I told the story of our heavy-duty starter factory in answer to the question from the floor.

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The Luddites wished to return to a more natural way of life, in which skilled craftsment could ply their trade and make a living, and in which civilization was not ravaged by all the ills of industrialization (including heavy metals and other factory-produced toxins poisoning millions).

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Issues with workers returning to the factory where the Care Bears were made caused heavy delays.

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Heavy lifting gear is now being used to raise slabs of concrete at the Rana Plaza garment factory, where at least 380 died after Wednesday's collapse.

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Less than fondly, he recalls a late-1980s visit to a French pigment factory where the air was thick with powder laced (he suspects) with toxic heavy metals.

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The skies over American cities were heavy with smoke, and six days a week tens of millions of begrimed, overalled workers poured through factory gates, lunch pails in hand.

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" Caterpillar, the giant Peoria-based maker of heavy construction machinery, made the same point more vividly when it declined in February to locate a new factory in Illinois, specifically citing concern about the state's "business climate and overall fiscal health.

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