smokestack industry

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smokestack industry

n
(Economics) informal any of the traditional British industries, esp heavy engineering or manufacturing, as opposed to such modern industries as electronics
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On April 4, Dan Oman of Haley ScAldrich will deliver the Hoyt Memorial Lecture on changing perceptions of metalcasting from that of a smokestack industry using low technology.
Marie would rely on attracting smokestack industry to generate employment and economic development for the city.
The College's "smokestack industry" is to produce graduates who know military history, how our national security policy is formulated, and how joint military operations are executed.
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Such channels of untreated pollution are now largely a thing of the past, thanks to policing by the agency and investment by water companies, and also to the fact that most of Britain's heavy, old-fashioned smokestack industry, once the major pollution source, has disappeared.
After the United States, Russia has made an upwards revision of about 250,000 tonnes for 1990, the last year of smokestack industry under communist rule.
The major reason that American manufacturing was an "obsolete smokestack industry" in the early '80s was the lack of an educated direct-labor workforce.
Flip and Gunther make art across from a working class ideal, Cleveland's smokestack industry, but Lombreglia's name choice signifies the self-referential element of fiction.
"We should all be proud that we are pioneering this on Teesside, and hopefully, it will go a long way to dispelling the myth that we just a home for smokestack industry."
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