Backed by local factory bosses, he won a second term by election in 1995.
Local factory owners said overheads were rising and complained that it was increasingly hard to find staff.
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Two sets of data released early Friday measuring Chinese manufacturing activity pointed to different trends in the local factory sector.
Unfortunately, those same factors, plus near-random taxation, also serve as a powerful disincentive to anyone thinking of investing in a new local factory.
Long gone are the days when a high school diploma could guarantee a job at a local factory -- not when so many of those factories had moved overseas.
Martha (Debbie Doebereiner), large in body and heart, toils alongside Kyle (Dustin James Ashley) at the local doll factory.
It was Saturday night, and I was at the local Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends.
However, Belgian politicians, their hackles raised by Renault's recent decision to close a local car factory, are professing outrage at the mere idea of Lyonnaise running Tractabel.
The package takes in a tour of a local cheese factory and features a chocolate making workshop illustrating the links between the cocoa produced by its Fairtrade twin town in Ghana.
One major obstacle that we faced when launching our first project back in Zhongshan was that local buyers and factory investors that were coming in from Hong Kong and Macau had limited purchasing power.
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On May 31st more than a hundred high-level union members were sent to the factory by the local government.
Although his factory is still not making a profit, the local partner wants to receive dividends because the study envisaged that the factory would be making money by then.
The programme of events includes a trip to a local blackcurrant farm and a jam factory.
GM's main foothold in China, a half-empty factory making Buicks for local bureaucrats, may be going nowhere much, but at least it is there, unlike Ford.
Factory owners profit because local workers cannot match the speed, accuracy and stamina of workers from Asia, as officials at the Jamaican export promotion agency have reluctantly admitted.
On Mr Randell's first visit to the factory, he stopped to read a notice board filled with thank you letters from local school children who had done work experience in the factory.
The money would be targeting to help workers considering self-employment as well supporting local small businesses who had contracts supplying the factory.
Or for anybody who wants to buy bread baked by a local baker, instead of frozen at a factory in South Bend Indiana and heated up later.
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In late 2010, more than 25 workers were killed when a fire broke out in a 10-story factory near Dhaka owned by a local business group that supplied companies such as Gap and JCPenney.
Setting up a factory on farmland required wrangling permissions from local planning authorities.
When the Prince's Regeneration Trust (PRT) bought the Middleport Pottery factory it said it wanted to save local skills.
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Mr Lowe said Heaver, a factory worker, had appeared live on a local radio station and posed as the father of Ellie.
But residents said the advent of big-box stores and malls crippled local businesses in the hamlet, and the loss of factory jobs on Long Island contributed to its decline since then.
As soon as Grundig, making audio products in Penang, stopped its operations in June 1996 to concentrate on its European market, the entire factory and workforce were taken over by the local Malaysian Electrical Corp.
It is even building a new factory in China, to make machines for the local market.
In October, LG Chem workers told a local television reporter they play games and watch movies because the factory has yet to produce a single battery for consumer use.
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Early Thursday, eight people died in a garment-factory fire in Bangladesh's capital, according to local fire-service officials.
Local police chief Khalilur Rahman confirmed eight people had died, including factory owner Mahbubur Rahman, and a senior police official, Monzur Morshed.
But it is also local and fragmented, with most auctions taking place either at the factory itself or in an auctioneer's warehouse.
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