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The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.

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Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.

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Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.

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The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.

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Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

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(in the singular) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

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There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.

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Automated production of material goods.

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A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

The most important internal industries are in wool and frozen meat.

All big industries are replaced by better ones.

The opportunity of utilizing the wool for textile industries has not yet been taken, though Sardinian women are accustomed to weave strong and durable cloth.

It is well known for its well-established, lucrative manufacturing and distribution industries.

In the middle ages Teignmouth was a flourishing port, able to furnish 7 ships and 120 mariners to the Calais expedition of 1347, and depending chiefly on the fishing and salt industries.

There is a considerable trade in wine and agricultural produce, other industries being brewing and malting.

The greatest proportion of strikes takes place in northern Italy, especially Lombardy and Piedmont, where manufacturing industries are most developed.

The main industries are glovemaking and leather-dressing.

The city had struggled through the drabness of poverty and job­lessness in an effort to raise itself from the ashes of long-dead industries.

It is the centre of considerable lace, linen and cotton industries.

The cereals of Europe are a source of increasing wealth to the nation, and alfalfa promises new prosperity for pastoral industries.

Some 9000 individuals were engaged in unclassified industries.

The chief development has taken place in mechanical industries, though it has also been marked in metallurgy.

Sulphur mining M h 1 supplies large industries of sulphur-refining and grinding, - in spite of American competition.

The textile industries, some of which are of ancient date, are among those that have most rapidly developed.

The other textile industries (flax, jute, &c.) have made notable progress.

Chemical industries show an output worth 2,640,000 in 1902 al against 1,040,000 in 1893.

Pharmaceutical industries as distinguished from those above mentioned, have kept pace with the general development of Italian activity.

Other industries of a semi-chemical character are candle-, soap-, glue-, and perfume-making, and the preparation of india-rubber.

Other cities where the ceramic industries keep their ground are Pesaro, Gubbio, Faenza (whose name long ago became the distinctive term for the finer kind of potters work in France, falence), Savona and Albissola, Turin, Mondovi, Cuneo, Castellamonte, Milan, Brescia, Sassuolo, Imola, Rimini, Perugia, Castelli, &c. In all these the older styles, by which these places became famous in the IthI8th centuries, have been revived.

In the mining and woollen industries they have fallen, but have increased in mechanical, chemical, silk and cotton industries.

Textile, building and mining industries show the highest percentage of strikes, since they give employment to large numbers of men concentrated in single localities.

Agricultural strikes, though less frequent than those in manufacturing industries, have special importance in Italy.

On the 17th of April 1898 a species of Employers Liability Act compelled employers of more than five workmen in certain industries to insure their employees against accidents.

The richest, however, of the co-operative societies, though few in number, are those for the production of electricity, for textile industries and for ceramic and glass manufactures.

In 1894 the excess of imports over exports fell to 2,720,000, but by 1898 it had grown to 8,391,000, in consequence chiefly of the increased importation of coal, raw cotton and cotton thread, pig and cast iron, old iron, grease and oil-seeds for use in Italian industries.

The industries are the manufacture of copper utensils and yellow leather, and the stamping of colours on white Manchester cotton.

The industries of Trier include iron-founding, dyeing and the manufacture of machinery.

The main industries are cotton-spinning, flax-spinning, cottonprinting, tanning and sugar refining; in addition to which there are iron and copper foundries, machine-building works, breweries and factories of soap, paper, tobacco, &c. As a trading centre the city is even more important.

With it are connected a school of engineering, a school of arts and industries and the famous library (about 300,000 printed volumes and 2000 MSS.) formerly belonging to the city.

The principal industries include paper-making, brewing, the making of nets and twine, bricks, tiles and pottery, tanning and oil-refining, besides saltworks and seed-crushing works.

Auckland has industries of sugar-refining, ship-building and paper-, ropeand brick-making, and timber is worked.

The spinning and weaving of cotton and the manufacture of hosiery, of both of which Troyes is the centre, are the main industries of the department; there are also a large number of distilleries, tanneries, oil works, tile and brick works, flour-mills, saw-mills and dyeworks.

In most cases, however, a very dense population can only be maintained in regions where mineral resources have fixed the site of great manufacturing industries.

In 1905 Portland was the first manufacturing city of the state, with a factory product valued at $9,132,801 (as against $8,527,649 for Lewiston, which outranked Portland in 1900); here are foundries and machine-shops, planing-mills, car and railway repair shops, packing and canning establishments - probably the first Indian corn canned in the United States was canned near Portland in 1840 - potteries, and factories for making boots, shoes, clothing, matches, screens, sleighs, carriages, cosmetics, &c. Shipbuilding and fishing are important industries.

Weaving and brewing and the manufacture of machinery, chicory, cigars, malt, boots, furniture and soap are the chief industries.

It lies in the midst of the great red and brown hematite iron-ore deposits of the Mesabi Range - the richest in the Lake Superior district - and the mining and shipping of this ore are its principal industries.

Its industries include tanning, leather-dressing and shoe-making, silk-spinning, hat-making, absinthe-distilling and oil-refining.

The chief industries are the making of sugar and shoes, and there are also electrical works and saw-mills.

Cotton-weaving and cigar-making are the principal manufacturing industries, after the large engenhos devoted to the manufacture of sugar and rum.

Its industries include cotton-spinning, brewing, distilling, and the manufacture of tobacco, earthenware and matches; native industry produces carved and inlaid furniture, bronzes and artistic metalwork, silk embroidery, &c. Hanoi is the junction of railways to Hai-Phong, its seaport, Lao-Kay, Vinh, and the Chinese frontier via Lang-Son.

Its industries include the distillation of oil, tanning, salt-refining, brewing, and the manufacture of earthenware and casks.

Its industries embrace the manufacture of iron and steel goods, tanning and organ-building.

Cattle-breeding and sheep-farming, however, are the principal industries.

The coral and fishing industries are the most important in Alghero, but agriculture has made some progress in the district, which produces good wine.

Lerwick's main industries are connected with the fisheries, of which it is an important centre.

The industries consist of manufactures of cotton, linen, woollens and worsteds, and leather.

When workmen from any province come, for instance, to St Petersburg to engage in the textile industries, or to work as carpenters, masons, &c., they immediately unite in groups of ten to fifty persons, settle in a house together, keep a common table and pay each his part of the expense to the elected elder of the artel.

Notwithstanding the wealth of the country in minerals and metals of all kinds, and the endeavours made by government to encourage mining, including the imposition of protective Mining tariffs even against Finland (in 1885), this and the related and re- industries are still at a low stage of development.

Similar industries, carried on by similar methods, exist at St Petersburg, Riga, Narva and Odessa.