11.   Most technology companies use the Philippines as a workshop --shipping in materials, assembling products and shipping them out again.

12.   Most technology companies use the Philippines as a workshop --shipping in materials, assembling products in the country, and then shipping them out.

13.   Not to mention that Solid imports from Japan four-fifths of the components it uses to assemble Sony products.

14.   Next January, Microsoft is to start assembling software products at a new plant near here.

15.   So she cobbled together a system to manufacture and assemble the product.

16.   Such software programs give users access to such information as supplies available to the time needed to assemble a product.

17.   The finished products are assembled at yet another plant.

18.   The equipment is bound for assembly plants where low-paid workers assemble products that, in many cases, are returned to the United States, Shaiken said.

19.   The products will be assembled at a factory in Manaus in Amazonas state, where a development zone permits parts to be imported under reduced tariffs for assembly.

20.   The products could be assembled by homeless or disabled workers.