...Department of Commerce estimates the global nuclear market at $500 billion to $740 billion over the next decade.U.S. industries could create or sustain up to 185,000 American jobs if they were able to capture a quarter of that market, according...
...improvement.Consumers' confidence might have been rattled by this week's Superstorm Sandy. Disruptions across U.S. industries will slow the economy temporarily, and some stores and restaurants will draw fewer customers. Some of those losses...
...world's largest supplier of platinum, chromium and manganese, he said.The mission will bring together delegates from U.S. industry, government and historically black colleges with South African business and government leaders. Participants will...
...September, Toyota sales were up nearly 32 percent compared with a year earlier, more than double the growth of the U.S. industry. Toyota also reclaimed the title of the world's top-selling automaker during the first half of this year, wresting...
...continue to buy new cars and trucks at a strong pace. Chrysler predicted an annual sales rate of 14.7 million for the U.S. industry in October, one of the year's strongest months. Sales ran at a rate of 14.3 million through September.Analysts...
...leaks. However, corrosion -- from decades of use and deterioration -- is the main cause.Over the history of the U.S. industry, more than 400 known radioactive leaks of all kinds of substances have occurred, the activist Union of Concerned...
...AP has reported that nuclear plants have sustained repeated equipment failures, leading critics to fear that the U.S. industry is one failure away from a disaster.Just routineRelicensing rules prohibit any overall safety review of the entire...
...even after a strong February and March."We're in a more pronounced recovery here," he said. GM now expects U.S. industry-wide sales of 14 million to 14.5 million this year. That's still lower than the peak of 17 million in 2005...
SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, Cuba --- Cuban rum maestro Jose Navarro's taste buds sing when he sips Havana Club, the sweet spirit distilled in this farming town south of the capital.
...plants that had been closed in May and June while they were restructuring and emerging from bankruptcy protection. U.S. industry operated at 68.5 percent of capacity in July, up from a record-low operating rate of 68.1 percent in June...
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