The tensions with its powerful neighbour and biggest export market forced businesses to look elsewhere for trade, fuelling an economic revival of previously flagging industries, while thousands of Georgians fight hard against poverty.
As many as two-thirds of the jobs are open to people who have two-year associate level degrees, making them reasonable targets for mid-career people who are transitioning -- either by choice or under duress -- from flagging industries.
But Mr. Ward's most challenging days may be ahead as he confronts flagging industry sales and the pressure to come up with more non- Star Wars" games.
And we are all familiar with the idea of small-town blues, of the contempt bred by familiarity, the despair of flagging industry, the sheer weight of belonging.
No money, flagging industry, one-time European leaders (you know, when they had Columbus and some ships).
Having grown up in small town Kidron, Ohio, tucked between the Smucker's plant in Orrville, the Rubbermaid plant in Wooster, and the Hoover plant in North Canton, I can attest to the depressed wages and flagging industry plaguing Ohio.
Colombia recently announced plans to repair its flagging industry by doubling the land under cultivation.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Cooney's supporters say that he knows the sport from top to bottom and that his own recovery could help to inspire the flagging industry.
Later, with Stan Lee, he helped fashion a completely new, psychologically rich aesthetic in comics, reviving a flagging industry and unveiling a pantheon of pop-culture deities — the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer — that still walk the earth today.
It's not known exactly what measures will be introduced, though it's understood that the model will be similar to that used to tackle child abuse, with a third-party body partly funded by the industry flagging sites for ISPs to take down.
In its wake, classified advertising sales, newspapers' financial lifeblood, have been flagging across the industry.
