Many schools still follow an old model focused on preparing workers for an industrial economy.
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Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.
We took an agricultural economy and transformed it into an industrial economy, then into an information economy.
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Detroit's booming industrial economy was a major draw for migrants from across America, especially the rural South.
In sum, the structures of the industrial economy are neither agile nor inherently creative and simply do not hold in the digital age.
This new industrial economy is already evident in those parts of the country embracing the energy revolution, notably Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Equal weighting is a biased, even a skewed view, for no impact on the changing nature of an industrial economy is detected until a rebalancing takes place.
It did well shifting from a metal-bashing industrial economy in the 1970s to a high-tech and service economy by the 1990s, just across the river from Manhattan.
The past few years for UK inflation has not only been radically different from what came before, they've been radically different from any other major industrial economy.
Margaret Thatcher tried out her hated poll tax there and that, plus the impact of privatisation and union-bashing on Scotland's industrial economy, turned off voters north of the border.
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Unlike the emerging Ankle Biter Economy, the industrial economy had massive barriers to entry and a wide variety of characteristics and factors that consistently rewarded bigness and institutionalized stability.
In 1954 he was invited to Japan to give a series of lectures which were subsequently credited by the Japanese with having been the basis of their quality-focused post-war industrial economy.
The survey lists Japan and Germany as the two primary countries able to successfully supply China with advanced goods, in a large enough scale to help it build out its industrial economy.
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The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
Decisions had to be made on the basis of unreliable data from a sophisticated industrial economy: government statistics in emerging-market economies are often even more unreliable, making the IMF's job that much more difficult.
And so as people were moving off the farms, moving into the cities, moving into industry, suddenly they were able to get the training and the skills they needed for an advanced industrial economy.
America is no longer an industrial economy.
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What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.
It is running at two speeds: steady local demand boosted by credit and strong labor markets on one side, and a weaker industrial and export economy facing strong, imported competition and less demand from the U.S. and European trading partners.
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The railroads were so domineering that the U.S. led the way in the Second Industrial Revolution and its economy boomed.
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Alcohol became central to American politics at a time when Americans were arguing whether the country should be rural or urban, a farm economy or industrial, and whether Catholics could ever become good Americans.
But for good or ill, she presided over the most dramatic transformation of the Welsh economy since the industrial revolution.
Cities like Sao Paulo are designed for an industrial age while the urban economy has become 85% related to services.
Since independence in 1968, Mauritius has developed from a low-income, agriculturally based economy to a middle-income diversified economy with growing industrial, financial, and tourist sectors.
The one scenario in which silver could lag gold would be runaway inflation accompanied by a weak economy that curbs industrial demand for silver, he said.
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Because the original G7 are effectively the leading industrial democracies and the Russian economy is still struggling, there are still some G7 sessions on economic affairs in which the Russians do not participate.
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
And, although China admires the industrial history of Japan, its economy is very different.
The precarious state of the economy and fall in industrial production cannot be attributed solely to the financial crisis in Russia.
But it is also a social and economic good, particularly as we move from an American-centric industrial to a global-knowledge economy.
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