Sentence examples for industry cutbacks from inspiring English sources

Defense industry cutbacks and corporate consolidation led to the closure of the Bridgeport plant in 1986.

That earlier period coincided with a recession in California caused by defense industry cutbacks.

Five years ago, in an earlier downturn, industry cutbacks set off a public debate about the health of the book business, but since then publishers' output has steadily grown back.

On the surface, the Ford Motor Company's plans to close five plants and eliminate about 15,000 hourly jobs in the United States and Canada seem like simply the latest in decades of auto industry cutbacks.

The Marsh & McLennan Companies, the insurance broker, said yesterday that it was forming a new company to deal with industry cutbacks in coverage that have occurred since the Sept. 11 attacks.

However, he says he hasn't detected industry cutbacks in the third or fourth quarters.

The prospect of another auto industry cutback carries huge political freight after the government was apparently surprised by the decision of BMW A.G. last month to sell its loss-making British subsidiary, the Rover Group.

Innovation by big companies has become a matter of incremental improvements within the processes that constitute daily operations.In some industries, cutbacks in R&D reflect changes in the way that new products travel down the "invention pipeline".

The 1997 deal came as the industry faced cutbacks by insurers on treatment payments.

Still, some analysts say the industry's cutbacks are related more to the weak economy than the war.

That's all happening from the first phase of the downsizing in the auto industry, the cutbacks and layoffs that have already occurred.