textile
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Abel said in his first letter to shareholders Saturday that he plans to follow the blueprint that Warren Buffett began mapping decades ago to transform a struggling textile company into a sprawling conglomerate.
His examples include textile manufacturing in the 19th century, and the spread of ATMs in the 1980s.
The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.
From Barron's
The textile industry is the third-largest contributor to dry municipal solid waste in India - after plastics, and paper and cardboard - according to a recent report.
From BBC
The uncertainty was particularly strong, Bain said, in areas including food and drink, textiles, industrial goods and electrical goods "who suddenly overnight are facing this big increase in export costs to the US".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
