With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.
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We started doing it at home and quickly realized it's not cost-effective, and it was too labor-intensive.
The restaurant industry is the most labor-intensive industry in the country.
Nobody in their right mind will do it again. We get paid next to nothing. We lose a ton of money on it. It's really, really labor-intensive.
It's been very labor-intensive, and it's also a situation where there's been some very tight federal deadlines.
There's only one conclusion Continuing to bolster labor-intensive production and exports is the only viable means for China to absorb its surplus labor and improve rural living standards.
A hermetically sealed border ... would be astronomically expensive and (ineffective), considering our heavy reliance on undocumented labor for an increasingly diverse range of labor-intensive industries. It runs counter to our economic reality.
They all take time. It's a labor-intensive, time-consuming process.
We made all the iron that the cushion sits on, and the outside of the aisle. The inside of the aisle comes from China. That's a pretty labor-intensive casting.
China has a competitive edge in the labor-intensive shoe manufacturing industry. They have ignored the fact that 98 percent of the shoemakers in China are privately owned.
There's a lot of prep work in the rice. Making the rice is actually the most labor-intensive part of making sushi, but it's a very important step.
It's a grand-slam home run. They wind up getting rid of the high-cost, labor-intensive delivery systems and get in return a business which has a faster secular growth rate with a higher rate of return.
These new operations are not likely to create enough jobs to replace the labor-intensive jobs being lost to offshore production. But the recent trend has been a slowing of the manufacturing job losses in North Carolina compared with the 1995 to 2003 time period.
Labor-intensive work that would employ a lot of people is done overseas. The newer manufacturers are kind of lean and mean, and they just can't replace the jobs. It takes fewer employees to turn out the products.
The whole idea of taking labor-intensive services away from the counter is definitely on our to-do lists.
For too long, special interest groups have attacked the manageability of Linux, and fueled the F.U.D. that Linux environments are somehow more difficult or labor-intensive to manage than Windows environments. In fact, Linux system management tools are in many cases outpacing Windows management tools.