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Bayonne is now the centre of certain craft industries that were once widespread, including the manufacture of makilas, traditional Basque walking-sticks.
The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.
Many of Dublin's traditional industries, such as food processing, textile manufacturing, brewing, and distilling have gradually declined, although Guinness has been brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery since 1759.
The early 20th century saw additions in technical industry with the advent of car and truck manufacturing company Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek ( DAF ) and the subsequent shift towards electronics and engineering, with the traditional tobacco and textile industries waning and finally disappearing in the 1970s.
Hundreds of small manufacturing firms, the traditional backbone of Honduran enterprise, began to go out of business beginning in the early 1990s, as import costs rose and competition through increasing wages for skilled labor from the mostly Asian-owned assembly industries strengthened.
Much of the agricultural workforce was uprooted from the countryside and moved into large urban centres of production, as the steam-based production factories could undercut the traditional cottage industries, because of economies of scale and the increased output per worker made possible by the new technologies.
The decline of traditional industries between the wars undermined recruitment.
Deindustrialisation took place rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, as most of the traditional industries drastically shrank or were completely closed down.
A new service oriented economy emerged to replace traditional heavy industries.
The latter half of the century saw the decline of traditional industries ( such as the famous Maastricht potteries ) and a shift to a service economy.
These industries were traditional, grounded in the nation's abundance of inputs like cotton fibers, cattle hides, and tannin extract.
Other users of the radio spectrum, such as the broadcasting and electronic countermeasures industries, have replaced the traditional military designations with their own systems.
While the tourism and industrial fishing industries were on a roll in the late 1990s, the traditional plantation economy atrophied.
The Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ), headquartered within the park, is the largest nonprofit research organization in Taiwan and has worked to develop applied technological research for industry, including for many of Taiwan's traditional industries ( such as textiles ).
In the 1860s, however, the major build-up of naval and military infrastructure brought vital money into Bermuda at a time when its traditional maritime industries were giving way under the assault of steel hulls and steam propulsion.
In recent years Drogheda's economy has diversified from its traditional industries, with an increasing number of people employed in the retail, services and technology sectors.
Though the storm stalled economic development and the city of Houston grew into the region's principal metropolis, Galveston economic leaders recognized the need to diversify from the traditional port-related industries.
Vocational education has diversified over the 20th century and now exists in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology, funeral services and cosmetics, as well as in the traditional crafts and cottage industries.
Agriculture and traditional heavy manufacturing have suffered relative decline compared to services and oil-related industries, and the public sector is among the largest in the world as a percentage of the overall gross domestic product.
Newkirk and Pacheco are seen as the leading exporters of animal rights to the more traditional animal protection groups in the United States, but sections of the movement nevertheless say PETA is not radical enough — law professor Gary Francione calls them the new welfarists, arguing that their work with industries to achieve reform makes them an animal welfare, not an animal rights, group.
Many of Northern Ireland's traditional industries, notably linen and shipbuilding, were in recession.
The older, traditional industries of Wallonia, particularly steel industry, began to lose their competitive edge during this period, but the general growth of world prosperity masked this deterioration until the 1973 and 1979 oil price shocks and resultant shifts in international demand sent the economy into a period of prolonged recession.
In the 1860s, however, the major build-up of naval and military infrastructure brought vital money into Bermuda at a time when its traditional ( cedar-and sail cloth-based ) maritime industries were giving way under the assault of steel hulls and steam propulsion.

traditional and Birmingham
Only a few Fox stations that air a late evening newscast in the traditional evening news timeslot used by NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates ( 11 p. m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, 10 p. m. in the Central and Mountain time zones ), along with the primetime newscast ; these include Fox-owned stations WTVT / Tampa, KDFW / Dallas, WAGA / Atlanta, WOFL / Orlando, WJBK / Detroit, KMSP / Minneapolis, KSAZ / Phoenix, WTTG / Washington, D. C. and WFXT / Boston, as well as affiliates WDAF-TV / Kansas City, WITI / Milwaukee, WBRC / Birmingham, KOKH / Oklahoma City, WTIC / Hartford, WXXA / Albany, WZTV / Nashville, WVUE / New Orleans, KTVI / St.
In the United Kingdom, the traditional greasy spoon or working men's cafe has been in decline due to the rise of fast-food chains ; they nevertheless remain numerous all over the UK, especially in certain parts of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Derby, and many seaside towns.
In 1991, he suggested to the Secretary of State for Wales the use of the traditional county names Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire and Monmouthshire for unitary authorities in Wales In a 1996 debate, declaring he was honorary president of the ABC, he noted his approval of the abolition of the postal counties, meaning that " people who live in places like " Birmingham, Walsall and Coventry can now use in their addresses the ancient pre-1974 counties ".
A more radical move in this direction took place in 2006 when the West Midlands Region piloted the BBC's Local TV initiative, with television news programmes produced for six local areas, all much smaller than the traditional television regions and in the case of Birmingham and the Black Country even smaller than those covered by local radio stations.
It encompassed an area corresponding to the north-western half of the traditional county of Warwickshire, stretching from Stratford-on-Avon in the south to Tamworth in the north, and included what are now the large cities of Birmingham and Coventry, in addition to areas that are still largely rural with numerous pockets of woodland.
Affectionatly called the Brummie Road by supporters, the traditional Birmingham Road End runs behind the goal, adjacent to the A41.
Shard End Library opened in 1967 and was the first in Birmingham to use plastic membership cards instead of the traditional cardboard tickets.
The Anglican Diocese of Birmingham is a diocese in the Church of England's Province of Canterbury, covering the north west of the traditional county of Warwickshire ( now West Midlands and part of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and north Worcestershire ) in England.
A particular activist in reclaiming the term as a traditional name reflecting positive aspects of the city's heritage is historian Carl Chinn MBE, Professor of Community History at the University of Birmingham, who produces Brummagem Magazine.
From the end of the Second World War there had been attempts by the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London and Birmingham to form clubs where traditional music could be performed.
Neighbouring Solihull council invited Birmingham residents desiring a traditional Christmas to go there instead.
For nearly 10 years he lived aboard a 60-foot traditional stern canal boat ( which he nicknamed The Blue Pig ) during the week, while presenting his show from the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios and then The Mailbox in Birmingham.
Other important songs include " Draft Dodger Rag " ( assailing those " red blooded Americans " who were in favor of US participation in the Vietnam War but did not fight because they were just summertime soldiers and sunshine patriots ), " That Was The President " ( a tribute to John Kennedy written soon after his assassination ), " Talking Birmingham Jam " ( which used the traditional talking blues form to assail the racist leaders of Birmingham ) and " Links on the Chain " ( attacking labor unions for excluding African-Americans and failing to support civil rights ).
For many Birmingham and Black Country people, the Lickey Hills were a traditional day out.
The Elbow Room is a traditional nightclub in the Aston area of Birmingham, England.
* In association football, royal blue is the traditional shirt color and / or main club color of Birmingham City F. C., Chelsea F. C., Everton F. C., Portsmouth F. C.

traditional and Black
This isolation, as well as minimal adult input, contributed to the fact that Black Sign Language displays traditional sign language elements as well as the adoption of words used by younger hearing Black people.
* Vader is the same as the traditional Black Russian, but with the addition of Jägermeister.
On the other hand, the traditional identification with a site in Assyria would then imply the later sense of " Babylonia ", and a few interpreters have additionally tried to identify Abraham's birthplace with Chaldia, a distinct region in Asia Minor on the Black Sea.
There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and ancient coastal towns along the Levant.
In the later Middle Ages, destructive Mongol invasions from the East, and the loss of population in the Black Death, greatly weakened the traditional centre of the Islamic world, stretching from Persia to Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire was able to conquer most Arabic-speaking areas, creating an Islamic world power again, although one that was unable to master the challenges of the Early Modern period.
Black and orange are the holiday's traditional colors.
* " Van Diemen's Land " is mentioned in the traditional Irish folk song, ' Black Velvet Band.
The traditional cocktail known as a Black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a White Russian with the addition of cream.
Albion have a number of long-standing rivalries with other Midlands clubs ; their traditional rivals have always been Aston Villa, but more recently their major rivalry has been with Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom they contest the Black Country derby.
The Los Angeles hardcore punk band Black Flag's 1984 record My War, on which the band combined heavy metal with their traditional sound, made a strong impact in Seattle.
* In the United States, Black Friday is also the nickname of the day after Thanksgiving, the first day of the traditional Christmas shopping season.
The male Black Grouse's tail feathers are a traditional ornament for hats in areas such as Scotland and the Alps.
Artists like Pen Cayetano helped innovate modern punta rock by adding guitars to the traditional music, and paved the way for later artists like Andy Palacio, Children of the Most High and Black Coral.
Barbara Jones and Tom Ingram organised " Black Eyes and Lemonade ", an exhibition of British popular and traditional art, in association with the Society for Education in Art and the Arts Council.
Eaten as part of the traditional asado, Chorizo ( beef and / or pork, flavored with spices ) and Morcilla ( Blood Sausage or Black pudding ) are the most popular.
A poem found in the Black Book of Carmarthen refers to Bendigeidfran's death in Ireland, claiming that Gwyn ap Nudd was present at the battle, either as a warrior or in his traditional role as a psychopomp.
Known as the " Black and White " sessions, because they " explored both American black music from Slavery to the present, and American white music from early traditional music to modern folk songs ".
He also wrote a short account of a tour of inspection of the Black Sea coast in the traditional ' periplus ' form ( in Greek ) addressed to the Emperor Hadrian, the Periplus Ponti Euxini or " Circumnavigation of the Black Sea ".
Black Flag was founded by Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie in 1970, with the name of the periodical being drawn from the traditional anarchist symbol dating back to the 1880s.
Nevertheless, Black pepper, either powdered or its decoction, is widely used in traditional Indian medicine and as a home remedy for relief from sore throat, throat congestion, cough etc.
Geezer Butler thus resumed his traditional job as Black Sabbath's primary lyricist, and completely new lyrics for the album were written, including what became " Junior's Eyes ".
The traditional folk song " Black Is the Color ( Of My True Love's Hair )" is featured prominently throughout this episode.
The traditional Black Country dialect preserves many archaic traits of Early Modern English and even Middle English, and can be very confusing for outsiders.

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