On the negative side, the Euro zone construction industry showed its sharpest decline in several months in October.

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Meanwhile, Congress, when it returns from its Columbus Day recess next week, plans to resume work on a second package of new Hurricane Katrina-related tax breaks--a gumbo that could include everything from the Bush Administration's proposal for a new tax-favored "Gulf Opportunity" zone to more energy industry goodies.

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The director of education told us she regards the phrase as "misleading" - private industry shouldn't actually run the Action Zone, just come up with good ideas.

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In order to accommodate Shanghai VW and the 30 component suppliers who have already signed up for sites, the city fathers expanded the Yizheng zone that is devoted to the auto industry from 20 square kilometers to its present size of 38.9 square kilometers.

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"You don't want someone on the way down from industry who thinks it's going to be a comfort zone, " he told BBC Sport.

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To build on this concept, AMD in concert with VIZIO unveiled the industry's first AMD SurRoundhouse which gives visitors to the AMD Experience Zone at CES a first glimpse into the art of the possible for Surround Computing.

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For the industry to raise a pot worth 1.4% of assets, euro-zone banks would have to be taxed a fifth of their annual earnings for five years.

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"Marketing theory isn't affected by age bias, but marketers themselves are, " Stroud writes, blaming the bias on a marketing industry population that skews under 35 on the lack of an institutional commitment to break out of a comfort zone.

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