What makes the National Front's loss particularly dramatic has been its defeat in the state legislatures of Penang, Selangor, Perak, and Kedah - large states with important industrial bases.
The most important industrial medicines nowadays are based on about 90 species of herbs and in developing countries, traditional remedies are usually based on mixtures of herbs collected from nature [ 7].
The industrial base remained important even after Bulgaria discarded socialism for a market economy at the end of the 20th century.
The changes enabled Navy officials "to resolve our concerns about the risk involved to this important segment of our shipbuilding industrial base," he said, adding that the Navy was confident that the new company was "well postured to build affordable ships into the future".
"I think that maintaining a national scientific base is just as important as maintaining a national industrial base," he adds.
Noting that home heating oil shipped into Providence's deep water port is sent as far away as Worcester and Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Mr. Cohen said the waterfront's traditional industrial base is more important economically than new commercial and residential uses.
Although these industries are less important today, the city still has a diversified industrial base.
"I think it is important to appreciate the size of the automotive industrial base," Musk said.
In the early 1900s through the post-independence era, industrial visionaries such as Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya born in Muddenahalli, near Kanivenarayanapura, Chikballapur District played an important role in the development of Karnataka's strong manufacturing and industrial base.
