As the automakers demand never-ending cuts in component prices, they are hurting financially.
And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.
As you might imagine, becoming the dominant player in electronics component manufacturing in China -- particularly at a time when competition has never been fiercer -- takes a particular personality type, and after reading BusinessWeek's profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, you get a very real sense that the dude meets the criteria.
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Since then, the federal wildlife agency has considered the effective management of gray wolves in Minnesota a critical component in its national gray wolf recovery effort.
"Heading into this year, we are expecting a slow recovery in the component business due to reduced capital expenditures, while competition in the set business will intensify further as demand slows and the mid- to low-end market expands, " he added.
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About 50, 000 people are directly employed by the three major automotive companies and in the component sector, while there are another 200, 000 jobs in related businesses.
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Toshiba faces a difficult pricing environment because excess capacity led to a collapse in electronic component and memory chip prices.
But if supply and demand are in close balance (as they were in the oil market), even very small changes in either component can lead to large price shifts.
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Providing this storage capacity with HDDs and with slower areal density growth than in the past will require more HDD components and a major investment in HDD component capital equipment.
Our analysis suggests that a severe contraction in debt or available credit is a key component in every recession.
Fraud was a material part of the mortgage collapse, a big factor in commercial property and loan losses and a component in investment banking and private-equity losses that did more damage than acknowledged.
Since then, Gore has highlighted many of those efforts in his travels as Vice President, touting the prayer and Bible study included in a job-training program in San Antonio, Texas, and the spiritual component in a San Francisco initiative to get welfare mothers off drugs.
The magnets will only connect in one orientation, preventing you from pushing current through a component in the wrong direction and ruining it.
The great of outsourcing productive process may be ending so the supply chain may in 2013 carry a greater domestic component than in 2008.
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With his Telugu Desam party's stunning success in India's recent parliamentary elections, Naidu has become an indispensable component in the 24-party ruling National Democratic Alliance.
In a BBC Wales lecture in February, he spoke in favour of genetically-modified (GM) crops as an important component in future efforts to feed a growing world population.
Conversely, a Northeast Asia MRC force could be tilted in favor of additional air and sea units with a smaller ground combat component in recognition of the capabilities of the South Korean army.
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In short, if the Nokia expert is right about the low labor cost component in its products, Apple could easily raise its prices to pay those Foxconn workers a higher wage without losing market share or its gross margin.
Many financial planners already suggest anticipating a longer lifespan than actuarial tables estimate when investing in retirement, and rising health care costs add to the need to include a growth component in your portfolio.
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It has been named in lawsuits for its use of ephedra, a stimulant linked to heart attacks and strokes that was previously a component in some of its weight-loss products.
According to its official statement, the One is not the actual target of any injunction in The Netherlands -- in actuality, the legalities of the matter are apparently only between Nokia and STMicroelectronics, the supplier of the component in question.
Dunne pointed to the increase in demand for printed circuit boards--a component used in many electronic products.
Falling prices in this one component creates the illusion of falling or lower prices everywhere.
Energy is a key component in this onslaught of growth and desire to play catch up.
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Kenya is a key component in the fight against the al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab.
They seem to be progressing slower than almost every other component in the contextual puzzle.
Silicon wafers, used to manufacture solar devices, is also a main component in the semiconductor industry.
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Digital storage is a key component in the build out and management of on-line data centers.
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