smokestack industry

They always look back to the old smokestack industries.

The problems are similar to those that hit America's smokestack industries a few years ago when the dollar was soaring in value.

"You feel like you are involved in a smokestack industry while everybody else is off designing the next new computer."

"Most people think it's the smokestack industries that give us our pollution, but that's not so.

"I'm afraid we have some of the smokestack industries of the 90's."

At first, the job losses occurred largely in beleaguered smokestack industries.

A smokestack industry is a basic, usually cyclical, manufacturing industry.

"The percentage of jobs they are creating dwarfs the smokestack industries.

The biggest losers were the smokestack industries, in which the total work force shrank by 200,000 from January 1986.

For most of its history, smokestack industries and a blue-collar work ethic defined Lima.

"We have become a city known for its desolation instead of its thriving smokestack industries," he said.

Like other small towns, it chased smokestack industries, offering them free lights, tax breaks, cheap labor.

In smokestack industries like cement, chemicals and paper, mergers and consolidation are already under way.

Not long ago, it encouraged the belief that multiplying high-tech factories would compensate for our lost smokestack industry.

All of those industrial companies made an exodus after seeing that the smokestack industries no longer fit into the economy of this area.

Smokestack industries no longer dominate and jobs in manufacturing have remained flat after a drop of 22 percent in the early 80's.

For young Italians, however, unions increasingly hold little appeal, as smokestack industries yield to service-based economy.

That makes its claims of unfair foreign competition more believable than claims by smokestack industries.

Many of the old smokestack industries have died or moved, and much of the beer that made Milwaukee famous is no longer brewed here.

Producing most of America's french fries has created the equivalent of a "smokestack industry" along the Columbia, according to the report.

The supplicants include smokestack industries like blast furnaces, plywood manufacturers and brick makers.

The growing corporate appetite for energy comes despite the economy's shift from smokestack industries like steelmaking to software and entertainment.

"It's not a smokestack industry.

Under the original Clean Air Act adopted in 1970, only so-called smokestack industries were held accountable for pollution.

Banks, insurance companies, real estate interests, oil and gas producers and smokestack industries lost valuable tax write-offs.