This worked on a manufacturing level, and it worked for app developers inso far as retooling apps for the Mini became optional, not mandatory.
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And it's partly because what they're doing is moving from kind of low-level manufacturing into sort of medium-level and upper-level manufacturing.
At 11.7% of the workforce, the region has the second highest level of manufacturing jobs of any English region.
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Given the high level of manufacturing sophistication in China, there are very few products that cannot be made more cost effectively in the country than in most other manufacturing economies.
The Institute of Supply Management's monthly survey of manufacturing activity hit its highest level for 20 years in November.
Manufacturing jobs might require higher level skills, but so do most jobs.
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At a more sophisticated level, a manufacturing job shop I consulted for had a cost estimate per job, but it included lots of overhead allocations.
Wal-Mart (or businesses like it) may have done that to America, but Africa never even got started with that level and specificity of manufacturing.
Separately, a rise in new orders boosted the Chicago Business Barometer, a gauge of the U.S. manufacturing sector, to its highest level since March 2012, also trumping expectations.
Manufacturing output soared to its highest level in 20 years.
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There is also disturbing evidence that the weakness in the so-called periphery countries has spread to the 'core' - not just France, where the index reflecting new manufacturing orders fell to its lowest level since 2009, but also to Germany.
Another survey suggested confidence among UK manufacturing firms had fallen to its lowest level in two years.
Currently, manufacturing wages are hovering around their 2000 level and as The Wall Street Journal notes, high unemployment and rising global competition means that employers are able to wring wage and benefit concessions from unions and employees in order to avoid outright job cuts, making the sector as a whole less attractive to potential hirees.
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Manufacturing layoffs and job losses hit their lowest level since BLS started tracking the data in 1995.
While employment in construction is plunging, export-related manufacturing and mining employment is at its highest level in a decade.
The number of weekly jobless claims tumbled to its lowest level since March 2008, and manufacturing activity showed more signs of strength.
On Wednesday, stocks were boosted by the much better numbers from the ISM on manufacturing, as the index hit its highest level in eight months.
The Institute for Supply Management announced that U.S. manufacturing picked up in January to its highest level in nine months, as new orders and employment improved.
The auto industry becomes a world within itself, with employment in the support industries being two to three times the level of employment within just the manufacturing segment.
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Economic news was better than most expected, as existing home sales hit the highest level in almost a year, manufacturing data showed strong growth, and jobless claims declined sharply.
While the figure was below the 50 'breakeven' level, and meant that US manufacturing had suffered its 17th successive month of contraction, it was higher than Wall Street had expected.
The euro zone's purchasing-managers index, a gauge of manufacturing activity, fell in November to a level consistent with a 1% quarterly drop in gross domestic product, according to research firm Capital Economics.
In Ohio, manufacturing employment in 2009 was 66% of its level in 2001.
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The news is even better in manufacturing where layoffs and job losses hit their lowest level since BLS started tracking the data in 1995.
Recent bad news included a sharp fall in the National Association of Purchasing Management's index of manufacturing activity in December: it hit its lowest level since April 1991.
America's first manufacturing report of the year showed activity accelerating to the fastest level since 2004.
We will go through extensive consultations with our stakeholders, with Congress, as well as with the Japanese to go through the issues -- and I mentioned agriculture, services, manufacturing, including non-tariff measures, and to discuss the ambition level of the TPP and Japan's willingness to address trade liberalization in a sort of comprehensive way that would make them a good candidate for membership.
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The index fell a staggering 6.9 points to 53.5, a level narrowly above 50, the demarcation between a growing and contracting manufacturing sector.
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The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing activity, a forward-looking gauge of the strength of the U.S. manufacturing sector, came in at 53.7 on June 5, a level consistent with economic expansion.
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