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"Perhaps we're beginning to come to the tail end of the recession, at least in the nonmanufacturing side."

At the same time the correction department is creating nonmanufacturing jobs for prisoners.

Companies involved in mining, transportation and other nonmanufacturing operations said they planned to increase their spending by 8.7 percent, to $285.72 billion.

In the nonmanufacturing area, the effect was strongest in construction and communications.

Many nonmanufacturing facilities, such as dry cleaning shops, release toxic substances into the environment, the officials said.

The company also plans to provide training at plants in Mexico and Canada and to its nonmanufacturing employees.

And the National Association of Manufacturers' nonmanufacturing index went over 50 last month, the first time it has done so this year.

The Institute of Supply Management will release its nonmanufacturing index for August.

The effect increases to 11 percent for the nonmanufacturing sector, the area where the most job growth is occurring, as Mr. Reich noted.

Increases were posted in manufacturing, trade and the transportation and public utilities group, while profits fell in other nonmanufacturing industries, the department stated.

The Institute for Supply Management said its nonmanufacturing index for June moved to 57.2 after rising to 60.1 in May.

The Institute for Supply Management said its monthly nonmanufacturing index fell to 53.1 in July, the lowest since January.

That would mean that the nonmanufacturing economy was still expanding - any reading above 50 indicates that - but that the pace was much reduced.

On Monday, the Institute of Supply Management will publish its survey of service and other nonmanufacturing industries for January.

Some buyers even have nonmanufacturing uses in mind, as in Greensboro, N.C., where a 200,000-square-foot cotton mill was renovated for an outlet mall.

It said the investment increase for all industries includes a 4.7 percent gain for manufacturing companies and a 5.8 percent advance for mining, transportation and other nonmanufacturing businesses.

"These additional job reductions are the result of efforts to trim the size of our nonmanufacturing work force and improved processes to design and build aerospace products more efficiently."

The nonmanufacturing index of the National Association of Purchasing Management jumped to 51.3 in November from a record low of 40.6 in October.

For the service sector, the National Association of Purchasing Management said its nonmanufacturing index fell to 46.6 in May, from 47.1 in April, showing a significant contraction.

BY the mid-80's, companies had realized that they could use benchmarking techniques and principles to model their customer service, accounting and other nonmanufacturing departments after the competitors who do it best.

Bonds advanced after the National Association of Purchasing Management said its index of retail, construction and other nonmanufacturing businesses fell last month to its lowest level in four years.

Labor leaders boast of examples where unions have obtained impressive contracts, notably in cities where unions have organized the vast majority of the workers in a nonmanufacturing industry.

The SBA has established two widely used size standards - 500 employees for most manufacturing and mining industries and $7.0 million in average annual receipts for most nonmanufacturing industries.

Seagate Technology Inc., the leading independent producer of computer disk drives, said it would reduce its nonmanufacturing work force in the United States and Europe by 18 percent, or a total of 1,200.

In another negative report yesterday, the National Association of Purchasing Management said its index for the nonmanufacturing part of the economy fell to 47.1 in April from 50.3 percent in March.