That comparative advantage can just as easily be in services as in manufacturing or agriculture.

Time and methods engineering use statistics to study repetitive operations in manufacturing in order to set standards and find optimum (in some sense) manufacturing procedures.

Just in time, too.

This time, manufacturing employment has actually fallen during the expansion, something unprecedented in American history.

The problem is more than just the tendency of productivity to grow more slowly in services than manufacturing.

The problem is more than just the tendency of productivity to grow more slowly in services than manufacturing. Service sector productivity growth in formerly manufacturing heavy Asian economies has been dismal by international standards.

Just as the Great Depression arose in part from the difficulties in moving from a rural, agrarian economy to an urban, manufacturing one, so today s problems arise partly from the need to move from manufacturing to services.

From 1995 to 2004, Germany lost a total of 1.09 million full time equivalent jobs in manufacturing and trade.

Tom came just in the nick of time.

They also made extensive use of new materials and manufacturing methods developed at the time.

That applies to the relevant aspects of circulation, manufacturing and stockpiling, covered by the draft resolution just adopted.

Perhaps adjustment will start to work just in time.

ready, just play some time.

Between 1980 and 2000, manufacturing employment continued to grow in expansions, but each time it failed to recover the previous peak.

Rapid productivity increases in manufacturing had outpaced growth in demand, which meant that manufacturing employment decreased.

It might require significant time to retrain construction workers and plug them into social networks in which they become good manufacturing workers.

We just need a little time.

For developing countries, expanding manufacturing industries enables not only improved resource allocation, but also dynamic gains over time.

Sami and Layla got back together just in time for Christmas.

But this time tested recipe has become a lot less effective these days, owing to changes in manufacturing technologies and the global context.

Although manufacturing in the US is in crisis, Texas has one of the strongest manufacturing economies in the world.

I just need more time with him.

Tom is just wasting time, isn't he?

The American system of manufacturing was a set of manufacturing methods that evolved in the 19th century.

We can and must do better, not just in time for her granddaughters and my daughters, but in time for you.

I just need to spend time with you.

For the first time since Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy, the law permitted private ownership of businesses in the services, manufacturing, and foreign trade sectors.

You've just seen him from time to time. You've read reports and so forth.

Manufacturing contributed 17 of GDP in 2006.

At the end of July, the widely watched indicator of European manufacturing activity crossed the threshold signaling expansion for only the second time in 23 months.

In other words, investors from Singapore may not be classified as manufacturing firms, even though they are investing in manufacturing activities abroad.

I don't know. If I just got some time.

At the time, we were just fifteen years old.

The final victory was just a matter of time.

FDI is negligible in primary activities and low in manufacturing. An exception is Mexico, from which relatively more outward FDI has been in manufacturing.

The Manufacturing Fallacy

The Manufacturing Imperative

They are manufacturing TV sets in this factory.

Airy talk about science and manufacturing as ladders out of recession (a favorite image of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown) is just that empty words.

Incoming orders in manufacturing, the most important indicator in the official statistics, fell more sharply in the first two quarters of 2008 than at any time since the beginning of 1993.

I don't need your money. I just need your time.

Sixty years ago was just such a time of transformation.

Wartime production During the time of the First World War, manufacturing processes typically became more complex with larger numbers of workers being supervised.

The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue.

Reason seems to be having a hard time of it in the US just now.