31.  Cheng feels the area provides a good pool of workers for research, design and manufacturing jobs.

32.  Colombia fears losing manufacturing jobs to Caribbean nations, and they worry about losing more jobs to Mexico, which wants a more open border with the United States.

33.  Compaq has been moving manufacturing jobs to less-expensive locales and to partners for several years.

34.  Cost-cutting played a major role as Adidas continued to ship manufacturing jobs to Asia.

35.  Despite this huge public investment, the company plans to send more and more of its new manufacturing jobs overseas.

36.  Each manufacturing job at the plant generates four or five other jobs, Prater said.

37.  Earlier in the day, Clinton visited the sweltering concrete and brick warehouse of MID.TEC, a business consortium that trains inner-city residents for manufacturing jobs.

38.  Economists cite the switch from better-paying manufacturing jobs to service work, global market competition and an influx of low-skilled immigrants.

39.  Energy costs and towering state energy taxes play a role in the loss of manufacturing jobs in particular.

40.  Equally profound is that the city did better, or at least less badly, than the surrounding counties in holding onto manufacturing jobs.