If Northwest couldn't deliver, Honda would help its suppliers transfer the work to other toolmakers.

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This trend works against U.S. toolmakers, whose expensive machinery is best suited to produce heavy-duty dies capable of stamping out millions of identical parts.

FORBES: A Savior From the East

He could also turn strike-breaker, telling the Longbridge toolmakers to go back to work and brokering a secret pay-deal for Ford car-workers with the government.

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And Chopp is sharing what he learned from Honda with other toolmakers in Michigan, who have formed a coalition in an effort to stop the industry's decline.

FORBES: A Savior From the East

The most successful of these new Big Data mining toolmakers and consultants will likely be those that first master and then advance the technology of data compression.

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Unite said more than 100 toolmakers have not been found suitable jobs, while workers who are being redeployed are being given little information about what work they will be doing once they are transferred.

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The researchers say the toolmakers at Jebel Faya may have reached the Arabian Peninsula at a time when changes in the climate were transforming it from arid desert into a grassland habitat with lakes and rivers.

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