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The factory orders report was very slightly better than expected, although after revisions it was pretty much spot on what the market was expecting.

The factory orders report shows that the first two months of the fourth quarter were not especially a great time for manufacturers.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

What we're trying to do is continue what Calvin and The Factory have started.

The real notion is that of the fusion in real life between this vanguard layer of the working class, the real leaders of real struggles of workers at factory and neighborhood levels, of woman's struggles, of youth struggles, of national minority struggles, and the political vanguard organization.

We built the extension of our factory in response to the rapid growth in sales of dairy cultures, and to meet the concurrent market demands.

We picked up Victory after we were in business about a year. They flew us out to the factory to try out the bikes in person. We already knew they were the best cruiser bikes for the money out there. Victory is the fastest-growing cruising bike brand on the market. It's an outstanding motorcycle.

We raced against factory teams from Honda, Yamaha and the rest. And we raced on all the big tracks. Mid-Ohio, Bridgehampton, Summit Point, Road Atlanta, even Daytona International.

When a city goes out and attracts a new factory that will have 100 jobs, it makes headlines in the paper. But the economic impact of those retirees will far and away exceed the economic impact of the industrial development. ... Retirees are really the most effective and efficient type of economic development for many of these little communities.

This robust report suggests that the vigorous pace of factory activity ... may not moderate significantly in the near term.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

The physical assets of such a firm comprise a small proportion of its asset base, ... Trust and reputation can vanish overnight. A factory cannot.

With still strong domestic demand and improving international demand, the factory sector is continuing to recover from the sluggishness that resulted from the Asian economic crisis.

Firms are substituting capital -- particularly high-tech capital -- for labor. They're putting smart machines on the factory floor and in the service industry. That may explain why high-tech orders for capital goods have been going up, despite the fact that manufacturers don't seem to be hiring a lot of people.

Factory finishes can furnish up to 10 UV- and scratch-resistant layers, and offer a 20-year guarantee that on-site finishers can't get close to.

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

Factory activity likely cooled slightly in December, but remains robust.

While the housing sector is slowing, almost all of its weakness will be offset by the improving factory sector, ... More interest rate hikes will be necessary to slow the economy sufficiently to alleviate the Fed's fears of building inflationary pressures.

There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.

We have a factory running here. We have tons of volunteers. People pull up and volunteer and stay for a few hours to help with the stuff that's coming in.

We have a factory and we still want to use it next year.

Those people should put all their millions of dollars together and make a factory that builds athlete-robots. Athletes are human beings. We have feelings, too. How can you ask someone to live in the world, to exist in the world, and not have something to say about injustice?

Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.

To have been somebody who started basically on the factory floor and to be appointed the CEO today is an amazing journey for me and one I'm very proud of.

We expect the combination of a U.S. growth moderation and the lagged impacts of a strong Canadian dollar on factory employment to do a lot of the work in engineering that cooling in Canadian hiring, leaving the Bank of Canada with only another 50 basis points in rate hikes.

We are suggesting the factory itself will support 1,527 direct and indirect jobs with an annual impact of $51.5 million.

Even the 'maintenance-free' need maintenance. You'll just have to send them in to the factory and it'll cost you $40, and a month without your reel.

Even in North America, (Toyota's) factory labor costs are lower because it pays a bit less for labor and is not encumbered by excessive benefit costs.

Everybody's thinking about the dot-com boom of five years ago, but we're not seeing that. Biotech is a terrific industry and it has terrific jobs, but it's not like a chip factory with tons of jobs. It's not as robust as people would like.

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

There's still a widely held misconception that anything built in a factory is a trailer home. That's a stigma of prefab that we have to overcome.

The trend is improving in manufacturing as businesses pick up the pace of spending on equipment, so we're looking for continued expansion in the factory sector.

The traditional factory town that helped transform America into an industrial giant must utilize new ways of thinking and new methods of innovation to remain competitive in the global marketplace.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Morgan make a gracious exit because he has built a great big factory that needs to be run by operators. I don't think the company necessarily needs a visionary like that any more.

These are unprecedented surplus volumes, reflecting the structural changes of China becoming the factory of the world.

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seem to have had little impact on the factory sector so far. However, many industries have already reported further production cuts as demand has waned. A more substantial contraction is expected next month.

These data provide some encouraging news for the factory sector, as unwanted inventories are being worked off and shipments have bounced.

These data indicate that wholesale deliveries to retailers are falling quickly, responding to the slowing pace of retail sales. However, deliveries from manufacturers and imports have not slowed as sharply. Unless retail sales revive, wholesalers will continue to cut their orders from manufacturers and imports, maintaining the downward pressure on the factory sector.

The story of Beck's is quite unusual. Normally you start your factory around selling your beer and your brand. Beck's was invented only for exporting,

The spring slowdown in factory activity, due largely to an inventory adjustment cycle, is now history,

The signals in the manufacturing sector have become quite mixed. The diffusion indices suggest a slowing pace of growth while the factory and durable goods reports indicate an acceleration. In the past, when this type of divergence has occurred, the diffusion indices have usually been the better indicator.

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

I've already said it many times: I'm a manager and have a factory manager's vocabulary,

Say you buy a factory in Brazil. When Brazil devalues its currency, that factory's value in dollars drops dramatically so your investment is worth a lot less. People are less likely to invest in a country that's prone to devaluations,

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Our company will commission the first factory in Vietnam in early 2006 to manufacture C3Play, transceiver equipment used for digital TV and wireless Internet.

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

You would think that with oil so high, we would be seeing some pressure. But I think the strong read on factory orders turned things around, as it reassures people that the economy continues to strengthen.

You show up freshly rested and flown to these events while these guys are driving their own pick-up trucks there and then they're working a 9-5 job during the week while the factory riders are on their own private test track dialing it in, getting the bikes set to their exact specifications.

You're going to have to look people in the eye and say, 'We've got to shut this factory and move it to China,' ... then in the afternoon, go out in the community and connect with people.

This allows us to claim intellectual property to sell, so it greases the skids for licensing. The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs. It will take a commercial product that makes money for the technology to have a positive effect on society. It's got to go commercial.

This index is designed so that readings over 50 point to expanding activity in the Midwest factory sector.

A lot of people are surprised. I am too. I hesitate to read too much into one month's number, but certainly it does indicate that the worst may have passed for factory activity.

This means the world to us. It helps keep our factory open.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

The release of the factory orders probably won't change the Fed's decision, ... The report reinforces that the manufacturing sector is recovering.

This marks the first time that Garmin has provided a vehicle manufacturer with a factory installed navigation system. The Gold Wing is Honda's premier touring bike, and navigating the highways and byways just got a lot easier now that Garmin is on board.

They recruit their managers from the factory floor; we get ours out of law schools.

at Janarth Sakhar Shalas, state curriculum is followed in a full time school pattern to prevent children from dropping out and joining the labour force at 7-8 years of age. In some places, sugar factory owners have begun getting involved in our work and have come forward to provide permanent infrastructural facilities for our schools. Workers in turn also ask contractors for locations with school presence. The challenges are to secure state funding for the program and expansion of the infrastructure and curriculum to higher grades.

It's not like a factory anymore. One-size-fits-all schools don't work. ... Schools are being built with a variety of spaces that meet the needs of individual learners.

It's not the Olympics that are the problem, it's these big, horrible, formula, factory American comedies that are out there bashing our tiny, little film industry and when you're trying to celebrate the Australian culture you've got all this trash coming in there.

Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked; his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.

It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available.

SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen.

It was like walking into a factory that had been neglected for years.

I've known coach Kay since 93, ... He and I have had mutual friendship and respect for one another for 13 years and it makes it easier for me to get to the place that I'm ready to accomplish. With his coaching ways and discipline, it was definitely a factory in coming here.

I started in high school because of the way rainforests were being cleared for cattle in the Amazon. Factory farming is very detrimental to the environment in a lot of cases.

There's the thought that if this is going to be so hot, why not price it higher? But if you do, maybe you lose volume and it doesn't stay hot as long, or you have to move to incentives and price cuts sooner, or you give a competitor a chance to enter the field sooner. The dealers certainly are making money. But the factory doesn't benefit from that.

The new look is refreshing. It's a great way to celebrate the people inside the factory and their passion for airplanes. This is an impressive graphic that matches our remarkable airplanes and product line.

The new factory is state-of-the-art. We have taken all the best characteristics from our existing factories and made this one better, larger and more automated.

Small commercial buildings tend to be one to four stories, but the main distinction is that they use packaged equipment. A packaged air conditioner is a cooling system that is completely assembled in a factory rather than on the site. An example of a small commercial building might be a shopping mall, which contains several rooftop air conditioning units that all have individual thermostat controls, compared to a system that has one central cooling system that must be put together on the site.

Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.

The Kinston factory is our manufacturing hub for dishwashers. The combination of the factory and its background in producing fine dishwashers, and the workforce available there to build this super product, made us decide on Kinston.

The Kinston factory is our manufacturing hub for dishwashers, ... The combination of the factory and its background in producing fine dishwashers, and the workforce available there to build this super product, made us decide on Kinston.

I'm not so thrilled about the factory farming movement in our country and also pesticides - you don't want to cut off your nose to spite your face.

I'm going into the factory and hopefully everyone's going to be there so we can have a little chat about the way things are going so far this year.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

Inflation is going to continue to rise based on the disruption from the hurricanes, high oil prices (and) a factory sector that has a very strong outlook. Also, there's a lot of positive news coming out of Japan and East Asia so there's going to be a real scramble for raw materials and that will eventually pass through to consumer prices.

Increasing oil prices directly affects consumers. There are increases in transportation and in the cost of all other goods and services that use oil for production -- from heating a factory to building a road.

I'm looking forward to this end part of the season, ... Riding the bike in Japan for a factory Honda rider is a real honour. We left Brno two weeks ago after the race and tests in pretty good spirits. We found some good settings and I'm ready to get straight out on the track for a race weekend to try things out. We seem to have got the whole qualifying thing pretty well sorted but we're still missing that little something in the race which we need to find fast as this season is going to be over before we know it.

I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals - would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

In our factory the managers say if you want to go on working, you'd better vote for Lukashenko. It's the same dictatorship we had in Soviet times.

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

In three to five years'' time, we hope to open a drug manufacturing factory there,

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

I had been stopped a couple of times -- once in a Lexus and in a Blazer. Both of the cars had factory sound systems. I understand the citizen's position on noise, but the city was towing cars that didn't have loud sound systems. When it happened to me, I knew there was something wrong.

It has been my dream for many years to expand our little museum into something very special that can do justice in presenting our incredible story to the many thousands of people who visit the factory every year to take the tour. Finally that dream has come to fruition.

Caged egg-laying hens are among the most abused animals in the world of factory farming today. Simply by using cage-free eggs, the White House can teach kindness and compassion to American children and the nation as a whole.

Before you consider how to deal with these issues on an individual worker level, you've got to first step back and look higher, and ask managers if they know what it means to manage knowledge workers, ... Our mental image of efficiency is rooted in the factory scene from Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times,' and managers base performance on how many widgets fly out the door. But customers and raw information aren't widgets, and you can't expect to handle them according to schedule.

I don't think my life will change. Maybe I'm being naive. I will try to make it work. Fashion is about having a good factory and good employees, and I can do that here.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.