The Westlake Chemical Corporation of Houston has lost sales to a Canadian vinyl pipe maker that is cutting back production because it can’t bid for some American jobs.

而休斯顿的西湖化工公司也失去了一家加拿大乙烯管制造商的订购，该制造商由于不能支持美国就业而削减产量。

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Some even point to the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a Californian maker of solar panels which had received lots of federal money, as proof that renewable energy is a wasteful pinko pipe-dream.

此家公司得到大笔联邦贷款却以破产谢幕。 在他们眼里，这足以证明可再生能源只会浪费金钱，是鸽派政客的春秋大梦。

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If few people can name an Argentine multinational, that is because there are only two of them: Arcor, a chocolate maker, and Tenaris, a steel-pipe maker.

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Companies that supply the drillers were also among the buys, including seamless pipe maker Tenaris S.A. (nyse: TS - news - people ).

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Tyco (NYSE:TYC) spun off its ADT Corp. (NYSE: ADT) alarm security business as a separate public company on October 2 after selling its pipe and valve business earlier this year to pump maker Pentair.

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