Mr. Sauerland, sensing an opportunity, decided to go after the event for Duisburg as part of his effort to turn around this declining industrial city by attracting culture, services and high-tech industry.
With a declining industrial base, the British economy needs fewer mid-level skilled workers.
Declining industrial activity in the United States and Europe has hurt large American conglomerates in the last year.
There is a major chapter on Britain's declining industrial position and encroaching labour unrest.
The presidential candidates must give serious attention to our declining industrial competitiveness.
A Democrat, he ran for City Council on a reform ticket, determined to transform a polluted, declining industrial city.
Many of those in the general work force have come offshore from Britain's declining industrial regions.
By contrast, "real demand in the major consuming nations is sluggish, with declining industrial output and weakening construction".
Since 1997, with national manufacturing jobs declining, industrial jobs in central New York rose 5.1percentt, igniting the rest of the economy.
And workers in declining industrial towns frequently pack up and move across the country to find work; capital flows freely as well.
Pittsburgh, once a declining industrial city, has enthusiastically bulldozed houses and factories, particularly along its waterfront, and replaced them with parks.
