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These investments mean jobs not just for PhDs working in labs or engineers developing new gadgets but also for heating contractors who maintain clean rooms and the heavy-equipment operators responsible for sensitive pieces of machinery.
In Albany, a boom based on microchips Howard Schneider 2010
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These investments mean jobs not just for PhDs working in labs or engineers developing new gadgets but also for heating contractors who maintain clean rooms and the heavy-equipment operators responsible for sensitive pieces of machinery.
In Albany, a boom based on microchips Howard Schneider 2010
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All of his selections ended in the red, with silver miner Silver Wheaton and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar posting the biggest losses.
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These investments mean jobs not just for PhDs working in labs or engineers developing new gadgets but also for heating contractors who maintain clean rooms and the heavy-equipment operators responsible for sensitive pieces of machinery.
In Albany, a boom based on microchips Howard Schneider 2010
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Also, plans by local Chinese governments to improve infrastructure loom large for heavy-equipment makers like Caterpillar Inc.
The Great Property Bubble of China May Be Popping Bob Davis 2011
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The Peoria, Ill., heavy-equipment maker has about 23,000 employees in the state.
Sears Tells Illinois It May Shop Elsewhere Amy Merrick 2011
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Electrical-parts maker TE Connectivity Ltd. has agreed to buy Deutsch Group SAS of France for about $2.1 billion in a bid to boost its presence in the aerospace, offshore oil-and-gas and heavy-equipment sectors, the companies said.
TE to Buy Deutsch Group Ryan Dezember 2011
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Shares of heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. have been on a spectacular run, up 440% since the March 2009 nadir; the broader market is up about 101% in that time.
Caterpillar Must Avoid the Squeeze Play Kelly Evans 2011
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Meanwhile, China is developing its own heavy-equipment manufacturing and Canada is capturing heavy-equipment orders in Caterpillar's market because it is smart enough to pass free-trade agreements.
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He also worked as a heavy-equipment operator for a construction company and spent years as a fisherman.
GLENN MARSHALL 2010
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