noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a production crew (= working to produce a film, programme, play etc )
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She’s a member of the production crew for a new television series.
cease trading/production/operations etc (= stop operating a business )
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The company ceased production at their Norwich plant last year.
crop production
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The area is mostly unsuitable for crop production.
electricity production (= the process of producing electricity, or the amount produced )
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California’s strict environmental policies make it difficult to increase electricity production.
energy production
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hydro-electricity and other methods of energy production
food production (= the process of making or growing food to be sold )
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Farmers have increased food production to meet demand.
gas production
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The company expanded its gas production facilities.
industrial production/output
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Industrial production has risen by 0.5% since November.
labour/production/transport etc costs
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They had to pay £30,000 in legal costs.
mass production
oil production
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a fall in US oil production
production line
production number
production quotas
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With an excess of milk in the European Union, production quotas were imposed on dairy farmers.
the means of production (= factories and equipment used for producing goods - used especially in Marxism )
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the class of people which owns the means of production
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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Extra funds were given to agricultural production , food subsidies, and housing for armed forces personnel.
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Understanding of population growth in relation to the level of agricultural production facilitates future food planning and management.
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Data on aggregate agricultural production that are comparable over time is only available from 1961.
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A drought caused agricultural production to plummet 11 % in 1995, driving up food prices and retarding overall economic growth.
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Economic activities An increase in primary, and especially in agricultural production , will remain the basis of rural economic regeneration.
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That does not represent a sensible integration with agricultural production .
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Important families grew out of brewing, for example, linking agricultural production to the financial system which channelled the profits.
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Agrarian reform programmes have differed in their emphasis, whether it be on land distribution or agricultural production .
capitalist
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The capitalist mode of production , for example, developed in Britain prior to industrialisation.
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They therefore had a monopoly on technological advances and the dynamics of capitalist production .
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But this ideology, though revolutionary in content, in fact sustained capitalist relations of production in general and big business in particular.
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This was compared with the situation where capitalist methods of production were used to further undermine pre-capitalist methods of production.
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Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space.
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In this lay the historical peculiarity of the capitalist mode of production .
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The root of the problem, however, lies in the capitalist form of production which generates these conflicting tendencies.
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Alternatively the state may be relatively autonomous of the capitalist mode of production , which is appropriate for a functionalist approach.
industrial
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Because of multinationals, industrial production means little improvement in levels of employment.
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Many industrial production managers have a college degree in business administration or industrial engineering.
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Their version of an improved world may be very different from that of the economist oriented towards the expansion of industrial production .
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In general, industrial production managers share many of the same major functions, regardless of the industry.
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The chart on the next page shows how industrial production has fared since last July compared with the past three recessions.
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Never had any nation relied so completely on industrial production and material superiority to wage a war.
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Severe import controls were introduced and were one of the factors explaining the slump in industrial production in 1973.
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Consumer spending and corporate investment are recovering and industrial production is improving, he said.
mass
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Second-pass silicon will sample in the third quarter, with mass production coming by the end of the year.
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Eli Whitney, famous for the cotton gin, also developed mass production techniques for muskets.
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The mass production and marketing of family food expresses the dissolution of domesticity as a way of life.
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Competition and mass production is now changing that.
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In the commercial horticultural field, the mass production of pot plants has been facilitated through cloning.
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Software engineering is still a craftsman's industry, awaiting the development of mass production .
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These problems can be overcome by utilising assembly lines ie moving over to a mass production method. 17.
new
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Food safety and quality management; New food production and service systems.
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Major changes in history are the result of new forces of production .
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Therefore, with demand outstripping supply for new aircraft production , existing in-service aircraft are replaced more slowly.
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Markets force firms perpetually to develop new products and production processes. 3.
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These could be described as a New Form of production .
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Once this new mode of production began to replace the old, it threw up a new class of owners.
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We're working on a new production model for the whole factory - new stock control, new purchasing policy.
total
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The total production cost is the sum of these two quantities, giving the line so marked.
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The total level of production in an economy is usually measured by one of two monetary figures.
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Using the methods offered by the new technical media, he must become a self-aware participant in the total apparatus of production .
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In spite of the shorter work day, total production increased and hourly production increased dramatically.
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The national brewers account for more than 90 percent of total lager production .
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This system still represents less than 10 percent of total production .
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Grain Whisky: United Distillers' grain whisky distilleries account for more than one third of total industry production .
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So, when looked at from the point of view of total social production , Dept.
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capacity
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In 1994 the world was awash in excess production capacity .
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For many types of work, its maximum production capacity is well below the level of ten years ago.
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Chellam also said the memory-chip maker will expand production capacity more than 40 percent this year.
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Schneider said it was selling the business because there is not enough hog supply to meet production capacity .
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The higher prices would dovetail nicely with production capacity increases that are already in the pipeline.
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Huge investment will be needed to develop production capacity and operate new oilfields.
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Damage to the plant's production capacity immediately affected world oil and petrol prices.
company
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He now runs a highly successful production company which bears his name and wins award after award.
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The lead police detective signed a contract with a television movie production company .
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Exploration and production companies have to manage huge amounts of data from diverse databases and business disciplines.
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Actually, the call was not from Jane herself, but her production company .
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This will give Anglia a major stake in a top Hollywood television production company .
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Kassar is expected to produce one or two films a year at Paramount under the banner of a still-unnamed production company .
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In London Channel 4 journalists and Insight News, the production company , brought pressure to bear.
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Paramount referred queries about the report to the movie's production company , Mandalay Pictures, which did not return phone calls.
costs
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In purchasing costs , stock holding and direct production costs.
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Their already world-class development and production costs were lowered more.
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Without them production costs would rise because farmworkers would have to be employed and paid.
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Beyond some point manufacturers usually encounter increasing production costs per unit of output.
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This ensures that production costs of electricity generated by these methods are no greater than for fossil fuels.
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But Sony says the Plasmatron is suitable for large-screen sets and low production costs .
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Only if the lowering of production costs results in lower prices will there be any benefits to consumers.
crop
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Yet these earlier occupants would marvel at the advances in crop production .
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Such measures inevitably incur substantial costs which in turn increases the cost of crop production .
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The amount of new land available for crop production is extremely limited in almost every part of the world.
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There is a herbarium, as well as a laboratory concerned with scientific research and investigation into plants and crop production .
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We can free up meadows for crop production and we are already seeing rainforests stripped out for new farmland.
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How can it benefit crop production ?
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The already hot, dry countries of the world tend to be the ones with poor crop production and troubled economies.
facility
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Merrydown has bumped up production facilities to cope with the expected demand.
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The locations range from former weapons production facilities to fuel tanks to federal landfills.
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But a major part of the work is the creation of production facilities to treble capacity to around 10,000 cars a year.
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Completed in 1936, the brewery is currently undergoing a £53 million four-year modernisation programme to renew production facilities .
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This investment programme has begun with the installation of a new wort production facility .
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The family-owned firm has its head office in Sefton Street and existing production facilities nearby.
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Further expansion of the production facilities has recently taken place.
food
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Nowhere is this more true than in food production .
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Water conflict is inherently local, depending upon neighborhood needs for human consumption, food production , industrial processes and waste treatment.
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Informal chats with guests provide an excellent opportunity to meet consumers and answer their questions about farming and food production .
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It also privatized agricultural land, giving a huge boost to food production .
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Clearly food production and consumption have changed vastly since industrialization but the devaluation of women's contribution remains a constant.
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In fact, in several countries, food production is at surplus levels, making exportation to neighboring countries possible.
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Greater food production also means improved incomes for farmers.
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The introduction of cash crops in the 1930s further reduced the amount of land available for food production .
level
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The company had assured these would be the last cuts because of lower production levels , he said.
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Factories were ordered to cut production levels and road repairs were halted in an effort to cut traffic jams.
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The reason for this is that the renewal of fixed capital is normally to maintain existing production levels .
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The task of maintaining existing production levels has therefore come to consume a higher and higher share of national output.
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The demand for higher production levels leads to more formal manufacturing methods and some special process plant is justified.
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But the production level was restored within one decade, and climbed above the pre-reform levels in 1992 and 1993.
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It then entered the domestic market to begin the explosive growth towards today's production level of millions of tonnes a year.
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Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s, and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded.
line
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Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window.
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Others are former production line supervisors who have been promoted.
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The firm designs and sells magnetic and optical sensors for use on factory production lines .
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The P5 will share the same production lines as the 80486.
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Harman leads by example, putting his time in on the production line .
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Here I was on the production line , as the kind of fodder passing along between doctors and consultants.
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Nawakille had become a squash production line , but this was no accident.
oil
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A further important consequence was the more rapid implementation of planned petrochemical projects in response to sharp rises in oil production and oil prices.
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In the case of lube oil production , an aspect of primary importance is catalyst selection.
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The possibility of oil production seems less likely.
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The group will supply a floating production , storage and offshore installation to handle oil production.
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By 1959, its wants took care of 60 percent of the world's oil production .
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As the oil price rose, so did oil production .
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There are two production sectors in the model, manufacturing and non-manufacturing, as well as North Sea oil production.
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The Shell-owned Eider oil production platform, with 38 people on board, was shut down for a while.
process
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Inventions - the discovery of new information about the production process - are a particular example of this general theme.
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Vicki Hochstedler ably steered the book through the production process .
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The decision to stop the line is with the employee, as is the decision to review the production process .
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They meet on call to present and analyze recommended improvements of the interaction of the teams or of specific production processes .
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In a manufacturing firm typically the budgets will be more complex due to the production process itself being complex.
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Economists assign value to resources based on their relative value in the production process , Preston says.
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In product markets characterised by complex production processes long-term supply contracts or sub-contracts are commonly used to try and lower these costs.
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Each operating team consisted of twelve to eighteen employees with skills and responsibility for completing all steps in the production process .
■ VERB
increase
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In a year of recession, Land Rover is taking on more staff and increasing production to cope with the worldwide demand.
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His studies show that some of these molecules, called tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-6, can increase viral production .
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Cash flow from operations will increase as production from these new fields is brought on stream.
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Any potential for increased farm production has to be weighed in the balance against stubborn facts.
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The E-C wants to increase production by fifty percent.
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Chrysler is the only domestic automaker increasing production in the first quarter.
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The desire for economic security was long considered the great enemy of increased production .
involve
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Conversely, state hospitals in the National Health Service involve public sector production of private goods.
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You get the sense it was a blast to make for everyone involved in the production .
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As a multi-skilled employee, her shifts involve chemical analysis, production monitoring and work as a colourist.
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As the system becomes more complex, many actors are involved in the production and distribution of goods.
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But before anything can be put into the hands of the worshipper, many people are involved in its production .
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The new technology could prove most useful in subsea drilling, where the expenses involved in stopping production are enormous.
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This latter involves the production of food energy and fuel energy which can supplement animal feedstocks and fossil fuels respectively.
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And get some one who has not been involved in the production to give you an honest opinion of the end product.
rise
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Owing to reclamation, technological improvements and urbanization, agricultural productivity and the level of production rose during the period.
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Total copper production rose 5 percent because of higher ore grades at and increased output at Escondida.
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Without them production costs would rise because farmworkers would have to be employed and paid.
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Declining global production and rising demand drove prices higher.
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But both the production and Fiennes rise superbly to the spectacle of Edward's decline.
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Copper production is expected to rise amid expansions at mines owned by Codelco, Phelps Dodge and other large producers.
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Prime costs for newspaper production were rising fast as supporting industries and services demanded real payment under khozraschet conditions.
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For 1995, those type of imports fell 35 percent, with those associated with export production rising 33 percent.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the means of production
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It would be foolish to nationalize all the means of production.
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A class in itself is simply a social group whose members share the same relationship to the means of production.
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But it did not own the means of production.
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Classes did not exist since all members of society shared the same relationship to the means of production.
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Finally, the owner-worker cleavage involves questions of labour exploitation and control over the means of production.
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Since managers are in control, they effectively own the means of production.
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The bourgeoisie class own the means of production, the proletariat do not.
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The dominant class, the capitalists, own and control the means of production and thereby exploit the subordinate working class.
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The power of the ruling class therefore stems from its ownership and control of the means of production.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As demand for the drug has grown, cocaine production has skyrocketed.
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Bulmers will be making around 40 million gallons of cider this year -- half Britain's total production .
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Have you seen the new Shakespeare production at the Arts Center?
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He will star in the Los Angeles production of "Phantom of the Opera' this year.
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Most caustic soda is used in the production of aluminium.
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Steel production has decreased by thirty-four percent.
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the body's production of white blood cells
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the Northside Theater Company's production of "A Christmas Carol"
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The Riverside Theatre is used to staging major productions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A second explanation is that antibiotic production is rooted in the plant material that is the food source.
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At present the factory has one production line running with a yearly capacity of 25,000 tonnes.
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But as they go into production the stock exchanges go into free fall.
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Companies may intensify production , improve productivity or reduce output - all of which tend to reduce employment.
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Rather, they affect production through their influence on labour quality and, to a lesser extent, labour quantity.
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Thankfully, this production receives a kinder, gentler updating.
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The last two columns give the production and export rates in 1975 in million tons.