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  • s  of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research
    postindustrial countries

  • The economists who highlight this phenomenon tend to be liberals; many of them blame the Reagan Administration for failing to help Middle Americans adapt to the postindustrial age.
  • A uniquely modern, postindustrial blight, acid rain is as widespread as the winds that disperse it.
  • The result is a top-down, bottom-up postindustrial revolution.
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  • Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazinform
    All conditions for intensive development of high technological productions, services sector are being created in the capital of Kazakhstan. This will enable Astana to become the first postindustrial city in Central Asia, Kazakh President...
  • Bill Paterson in Sunday Herald
    The city was changing into its postindustrial phase,says Paterson.
  • John Hutton in Times Online
    Mr Hutton says: "I think there is a lot of myth about manufacturing. You hear people say we are living in a postindustrial economy. No we're not, that is for the birds, that's ludicrous. We are the sixth-largest manufacturing country in the world....

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