The rate of plant and equipment spending by business and industry now seems to be topping out and facing some decline.

The slate quarries on Craigmore which operated from the 1820s to the 1950s are now defunct ; at its peak this was a major industry.

Wood-carving is a traditional cottage industry in the region and carved ornaments now are produced in substantial numbers as souvenirs for tourists.

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as it became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased ( the British, in return, began importing Morocco's now famous national drink, gunpowder tea ).

The city is now developing a tourism industry.

At that time ( as it is now ), the microchip industry was dominated by automated design and layout tools.

Many of these former refugees are now involved in the farming industry.

It then diversified and now has income from tourism, commercial fishing, and servicing the fishing industry as well as agriculture.

The Swedish industry did not have this problem, as its production was more in balance with the market, and more importantly, the quality of its films was now superior to those from Denmark.

The work of other directors who worked largely at this tier of the industry, such as Felix E. Feist ( The Devil Thumbs a Ride, Tomorrow Is Another Day ), is now relatively obscure.

Computer modelling of stock prices has now replaced much of the subjective interpretation of fundamental data ( along with technical data ) in the industry.

In March 1995, Kildall was posthumously honored by the Software Publishers Association ( now the Software and Information Industry Association ) for his contributions to the microcomputer industry:

The government privatization program ended on schedule in 1998: 80 % of GDP is now produced by the private sector, and foreign owners control 70 % of financial institutions, 66 % of industry, 90 % of telecommunications, and 50 % of the trading sector.

Many of those who remained were now crofters: poor families living on " crofts "— very small rented farms with indefinite tenure used to raise various crops and animals, with kelping industry ( where men burned kelp for the ashes ), fishing, spinning of linen and military service as important sources of revenue.

Finkelstein can now be said to have founded a Holocaust industry of his own.

The ISO 9660 file system format is now used throughout the industry.

He anticipated that German industry, now heavily involved in shipbuilding, would back a campaign to maintain a higher construction rate.

" In Washington, the Joint Chiefs declared that the " complete revival of Germany industry, particularly coal mining " was now of " primary importance " to American security.

Prospecting potential mining sites, a vital area of concern for the mining industry is now done using sophisticated new technologies such as seismic prospecting and remote-sensing satellites.

In 1955, he joined the recently formed Copper Office ( Departamento del Cobre, now CODELCO ), where he worked until 1959 as a research analyst in the copper industry.

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Especially in the production of polymers, the gas separation by membranes has acquired increasing importance in the petrochemical industry and is now a relatively well-established unit operation.

More than 80 % of the population relies on subsistence agriculture, with only a small fraction directly involved in industry and services.

Never a strong center of industry and manufacturing, the city's economic base relies on the education, medical, technology and insurance industries.

Italian-inspired cuisine is dominant in the New Haven area, while southeastern Connecticut relies heavily on the fishing industry.

In addition, damaged hotels and piers created a long-term impact through lack of tourism-an industry the island relies on.

The cotton industry relies heavily on chemicals, such as herbicides, fertilizers and insecticides, although a very small number of farmers are moving toward an organic model of production, and organic cotton products are now available for purchase at limited locations.

The city's economy mainly relies on tourism and services, however also partially on research, construction, pharmaceuticals and the petroleum industry.

The airline has in recent times been criticised for its unreliability, particularly from the Bhutanese tourism industry which is still in its infancy, and regards the very company upon which it relies as its biggest threat.

Linn County's economy relies heavily on the lumber and wood products industry ; in 1990, this industry accounted for 40 % of the county's manufacturing jobs.

Llangollen relies heavily on the tourist industry.

Currently, Park City primarily relies on its tourist industry from skiing to restaurants to hiking and biking.

The economy of the municipality relies heavily on agriculture, commerce and services, light industry and transportation.

The city's economy is, however, on the rebound, thanks to diversification of economic activity including higher education, the fine arts, tourism, residential construction and eco-friendly electricity generation ; however, the city's economy still relies primarily on heavy industry, and will continue to in the near future.

Canóvanas agriculture relies primarily on minor vegetable and fruit cultivation ; It also has a minor cattle and poultry industry.

In the last 50 years heavy industry has waned, and the economy of the town relies increasingly on retail and tourism.

In fact, much of the world's banking industry relies on IMS, including the U. S. Federal Reserve.

The cotton industry relies on irrigation and has been affected by recent drought with water allocations to farms severely reduced.

Along the way, they realize that they are only pawns in a much larger political and economic " war " between America and Japan, and how much the United States relies on Japan, which dominates the American electronics industry.

This role continues to be important in the city's economy, which relies on a mixture of agriculture and heavy industry.

It relies mostly on tourism for its income ( fishing was the island's mainstay up to the 1980s but is no longer a significant industry ), as well as the traditional Gaeltacht summer schools.

Much of the Internet services and Telecommunication industry relies on shift work to maintain worldwide operations and uptime.

Shaki possesses a small silk industry and relies on its agricultural sector, which produces tobacco, grapes, cattle, nuts, cereals and milk.

Poor exposure, coupled with a decline in the brick industry has made detailed mapping of the clays difficult which now relies heavily on trenches dug for services.

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