"The only companies that are operating successfully on the border are high-tech plants," Mr. Christman said.
But there are many gleaming high-tech plants; unemployment is lower than elsewhere in Ohio, and educational aspiration higher.
In Hillsboro, 16 miles west of Portland, where 31 schools dot a landscape of rolling farmsteads of red clover as well as several high-tech plants, the early closing has meant a considerable cut in the pay of teachers, administrators and other staff members.
Many teachers have to close school early, so they can work in the fields to feed their families.In Soviet days, Moldova, whose indigenous people are ethnic Romanians, produced good scientists: a quarter of the country's earnings came from high-tech plants serving space and submarine programmes.
In contrast to conventional plants, high-tech plants have sophisticated instrumentation, highly complex pipelines, and confined spaces.
For years Sharp had resolutely kept its high-tech plants at home, where it could best protect manufacturing processes that fabricate LCD glass substrates.
And it had high hopes for the latest version of the GX, introduced in December and built at a high-tech plant in Tahara, Japan.
For the film's next episode, set in a high-tech plant, he becomes a writhing, serpentine figure with glowing sensors attached to his body, and joins with an equally acrobatic female, who is also covered with sensors, in a gorgeous pantomime of sexual abandon.
The technology to compete with conventional methods is still five or ten years away".Until indoor farms are ready to feed the world's cities, then, it seems that only well-heeled geeks will get to taste the fruits of high-tech plant factories.
He claims that much of GM's strategy is still sound: while other car companies brought in older models from other markets that they could make cheaply, GM invested in a modern, high-tech plant to make cars as advanced as those it was selling in America.
