Jerry Jasinowski
Jerry Jasinowski
Jerry J. Jasinowskiis the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Manufacturers and Founder and Past President of the Manufacturing Institute...
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This is the most optimistic manufacturing survey we've seen in some time.
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We expect that manufacturing will maintain a 6 percent rate of growth in 2004 and actually grow faster than the overall economy for the first time in four years.
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The Y2K issue is a serious problem not only for the government and larger companies, but especially for smaller manufacturers who often don't have the necessary resources on-site to address this technological challenge, ... We will continue to raise awareness among our membership about this critical challenge.
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Manufacturing job recoveries are most likely in fabricated metals, machinery, transportation equipment and computers and electronics, which together have accounted for half of the manufacturing job losses.
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China and other developing countries remain a concern with respect to putting in place and maintaining adequate intellectual property rules.
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We give him great credit for raising the priority for education and training. On the other hand, he really did so many things to stick it in the corporate eye, whether or not it was downsizing or siding with the unions in the last two years of the administration.
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E-commerce will be a central factor in future productivity growth and maintaining low inflation. E-commerce provides cost-effective, time-efficient means of transacting business and distributing goods, thereby lowering expenses and constraining inflation.
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It is time for the administration to get tough with the Chinese.
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It will be a boon to stocks and to capital investment. Increasing the stock market will give business confidence a very big shock.
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It's had a significant, major impact on a lot of industries that are trying to export and compete abroad, and the jobs related to them.
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It really is a broader international issue that requires the general consensus of countries that intellectual property protection is critical to growth and productivity.
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The prospect of deflation is one that sends shudders through financial markets.
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As a trial lawyer, Edwards brings to his job an inherent bias against innovation and the American entrepreneurial spirit that is essential to compete and create jobs.
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This is the first time that all of these sectors had positive orders in at least three months and is the first sign that a broad-based turnaround in the manufacturing sector may be beginning to form,