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• Food Manufacturing

  BNET - 2004-03-18

  This report focuses on the food manufacturing industry where there is high incidence of injury and illness; meat packing plants have the highest incidence among all food manufacturing industries. The industry's production workers account for more than half of all jobs. Most jobs in this industry require little formal education...

  Tags: Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Food, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing, Strategy

• The data aren't quite ready yet.(Slants & Trends)

  - 2004-01-01

  THE DATA AREN'T QUITE READY YET, but next month, the Department of Commerce will update its employment projections for the decade, including the still-growing IT field. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics' BLS forecast does not get down to individual jobs, everyone expects the leading job-growth...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, U.S. Department of Commerce

• Finding and using government data. (Business Management & Marketing).

  - 2003-06-01

  THERE HAS TRADITIONALLY been an enormous amount of information disseminated throughout the federal government that is of great value to the adhesives industry. The difference today is that instead of having to order CD-ROMs or hard copies with dated material, the Internet has made quickly getting "real time" government data...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government, INTERNET, search, SEC, Strategy

• The Philadelphia Inquirer Business Calendar Column.

  - 2001-08-13

  The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 13--TODAY: Treasury Auctions 3-month & 6-month bills today; 4-week bills Aug. 21; 2-year notes Aug. 29; 5-year notes Nov. 6; 9.5-year notes Nov. 7 TOMORROW: Programs *FREE* Best Practices in Information Technology ...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, Strategy, women

• 1990s AD - Decade

  - 2000-03-01

  Aviation employment and business activities increased massively for decades, but growth slowed in the '90s Commercial air transportation has grown rapidly in the United States since 1938 or earlier.(1) The most significant reason for such growth is probably that air travel has become almost continuously more affordable. Ticket prices...

  Tags: advertisement, Air Transport Association, aircraft, Aviation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, carrier, deregulation, Handbook, job, Manufacturing, productivity, recession, regulation, Strategy, Transportation

• Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Publishes Comprehensive Directory.

  - 1999-08-16

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 16 -- Does a handful of guys selling beepers in a strip mall make a high-tech company? If you use the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce's 128-page directory of local high-tech businesses as a reference, Beeper Hut...

  Tags: American Electronics Association, Atlanta, Bureau of Labor Statistics, chamber, job, Strategy

• Eaton Vance corrects sentence in previous release

  - 1999-08-05

  In BW1249, (MA-EATON-VANCE)EV Attention Economic and Financial Reporters: Eaton Vance Management's Chief Economist Available to Comment About Department of Labor Productivity Statistics, the first sentence should read xxx Yesterday's release of non-farm business productivity and cost statistics by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor statistics has been much anticipated...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Collaboration, economist, FINANCE, Strategy, U.S. Department of Labor

• The accuracy of the BLS productivity measures - Bureau of Labor Statistics

  - 1999-02-01

  Overall productivity growth may be somewhat underestimated; despite continued progress, measurement and conceptual barriers remain The Bureau of Labor Statistics has made sustained efforts to improve its productivity measures. The goals of these efforts have been to enhance the reliability of the measures; to facilitate analysis of economic performance;...

  Tags: banking, BEA Systems Inc., Brookings Institution, BUREAU, Bureau of Labor Statistics, manufacturing, productivity, Strategy

• Productivity trends in two retail trade industries, 1987-95 - miscellaneous general merchandise stores; catalog and mail-order houses

  - 1997-07-01

  Productivity rose in two rapidly expanding industries: miscellaneous general merchandise stores--which include warehouse clubs--and catalog and mail-order houses The retail sector of the economy continues to be an important provider of jobs, accounting for 29 percent of employment in the private service-producing sector of the economy in 1995....

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, mail-order, Productivity, SALES, Strategy, Washington Post Co.