Word: smokestack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turned 18 and go study economics and industrial R. and D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He returned in 1970--a Wharton graduate in a land of lunch buckets--and became a partner in his father's C.P.A. firm, servicing the high-tech companies that were slowly replacing the smokestack factories he had grown up with. After a few years of totting up the profits of other people's businesses, he decided he'd rather be doing some of that manufacturing...
Some migrations are forced at gunpoint. Others are set in motion by the global economy. Money is dynamite, and it can scatter people better than mortar fire. The world is well into the second Industrial Revolution, in which the developed nations have gone dotcom and service. Smokestack industry and light manufacturing have moved to the Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans...