Thompson industry into semi-skilled manufacturing, but the next bigger step to science-based manufacturing or to exportable professional ser-vices is in doubt. And this second, more demanding step, must probably be made even more quickly under the pressure of the grow-, ing shortage of semi-skilled and skilled manufacturing work, as successively more sophisticated operations are being spun-off to industrializing nations all over the world. If this sprawling system of small to medium size cities -- the largest is only a little over one-half million population -- can not learn to con-duct research, marshall information, make good decisions promptly and sell itself in a "post-industrial age, a second major popu-

DOI link for Thompson industry into semi-skilled manufacturing, but the next bigger step to science-based manufacturing or to exportable professional ser-vices is in doubt. And this second, more demanding step, must probably be made even more quickly under the pressure of the grow-, ing shortage of semi-skilled and skilled manufacturing work, as successively more sophisticated operations are being spun-off to industrializing nations all over the world. If this sprawling system of small to medium size cities -- the largest is only a little over one-half million population -- can not learn to con-duct research, marshall information, make good decisions promptly and sell itself in a "post-industrial age, a second major popu-

Thompson industry into semi-skilled manufacturing, but the next bigger step to science-based manufacturing or to exportable professional ser-vices is in doubt. And this second, more demanding step, must probably be made even more quickly under the pressure of the grow-, ing shortage of semi-skilled and skilled manufacturing work, as successively more sophisticated operations are being spun-off to industrializing nations all over the world. If this sprawling system of small to medium size cities -- the largest is only a little over one-half million population -- can not learn to con-duct research, marshall information, make good decisions promptly and sell itself in a "post-industrial age, a second major popu-