Wanted: diversified industrial base
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Birmingham and the West Midlands has an unemployment rate of 10.9% compared with 8.4% for the UK as a whole. The rate is higher in Birmingham, at 13.6%, while some parts of the inner city have rates of over 20%. The rate is also higher among people aged 20-years-old to 34-years-old. Manufacturing employment dropped between the 1980s recession and the 1990s recession to a little over 550,000 from almost 1 million. Services activities have grown but not as much as in the UK as a whole.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1996
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How to have a successful operations management program: a final editorial
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The Colorado School of Mines offers an operations management program that educates potential managers in the manufacturing and service industries as well as public and private sectors. The program, called OR/OM program, tries to establish credibility among students by requiring them to undertake a second job that will test their capability to work their way through a firm. They are also required to undertake a project that can be used and yield measurable benefit to their sponsor.
Publication Name: Production & Inventory Management Journal
Subject: Metals, metalworking and machinery industries
ISSN: 0897-8336
Year: 1998
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Villages of Andes are shattered by quake
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At least 47 people died and around 550 people were injured in an earthquake that hit the Andean region on Jun 23, 2001. Many homes have been destroyed, forcing people to camp out in the open.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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