The government's response was not to raise import duties again, but to pass a measure intended to persuade foreign makers to revive the Russian car industry by setting up local assembly plants.
So I moved to the South Side of Chicago, and I took a job with a group of churches, mostly Catholic parishes, working to help families who had no place to turn when the local steel plants shut down, and when panic-peddling had led to enormous turnover in these communities.
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He thinks it might be used to cut the cost of hooking villages up to local electricity-generating plants, or to subsidise the prices charged.
The video shows the work of People and Plants, which since 1997 has been studying systems of management used for medicinal plants by local amchis and investigating how they can be strengthened.
In both countries water and sewerage systems need to be vastly expanded, and governments in both countries are also coming under intense public pressure to curb what are often appalling levels of local pollution from factories and power plants.
We need state and local politicians to think outside of their party affiliation and facilitate a Main Street business environment that encourages the local barbershop, restaurants, manufacturing plants, and other businesses to create and invent the products and services that will change lives and communities for the better.
The report said that instead of building houses immediately the agencies would have been better off training local people in construction and establishing manufacturing plants.
The rendering plants pick up cooking fat from local fast-food joints and meat from supermarkets.
Among them are Japanese carmakers such as Toyota, which now has plants in several countries producing for local markets, and Coca-Cola, which never tastes quite the same from one country to the next.
U.S. firms, which provide 60% of the solar cells and panels used in India's power plants, are already unhappy with the local content requirements.
We ended up in a local outdoor cafe with banana trees and various leafy tropical plants, Brazilian hostesses (ahem) and locally inspired cuisine.
Each local climate will respond differently, so will the animals and plants that live in those places.
We devoted our efforts to overcoming the crisis and creating a tougher business foundation by taking measures so that our nuclear power plants can withstand disasters, strengthening our relationship with local communities and residents to retain their confidence, and enforcing strict policies for business improvement.
The 3, 000 reindeer are trampling native plants, causing erosion and endangering king penguins and other local birds by destroying their nests and habitat.
To that end, its city hall is covered in solar panels and there are plans to fit cosier insulation to local-government buildings, build four waste-to-energy plants and buy 500 hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2010.
The Coventry and Birmingham plants are part of Remploy's automotive section, which supply local car manufacturers.
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Built five Akamil food processing plants in Jeremie and villages to make high protein foods out of local produce.
Many state or local extension services will test your soil and tell you what it needs for particular plants, shrubs or trees.
Agricultural irrigation along with cattle feed lots located near the plants to take advantage of the co-product distillers grain add to local water demands.
There should be hard drive plants everywhere, as there are fields of food everywhere, so that local weather travails just mean having to ship in from somewhere else.
Take time to get to know your local growing conditions, as this can have a huge impact on the life of your plants.
The company has begun an effort to improve its standing with local communities in the last decade by building clinics, roads and even natural gas power plants.
The Scranton area contains several sizable defense plants making items like high-tech helmets and smart bombs, and the biggest local employer is a nearby Army depot that repairs military electronics.
Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.
As Japan weighs whether to resume its reliance on nuclear power, all this evidence is highly relevant - whether the plants can withstand earthquakes, whether the authorities really are checking them, and whether local people are kept properly informed.
"Our vision is that one of these plants would be the core element of a community energy center" that could provide a local, sustainable source of both transportation and heating fuel.
"They've been upgrading the fan plants and the pump plants little by little, " said Pete Foley, an official with Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents many bus and subway workers.
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