Another point is that there is a major need for advanced factories in West Belfast.

Industry is not common, but some technically advanced factories exist.

They observed a democratic society with open universities and civic societies in addition to more advanced factories and manufacturing plants.

It will be priced at $400 to $500 when it goes into full production early next year at an advanced new factory in Dallas.

But in the 1980's, business executives learned how to operate advanced factories successfully in almost any country, not just the industrial nations.

Two-thirds of the most advanced factories being built, those producing 300-millimeter chip wafers, are in Asia, Mr. Otellini said.

They spend their days working at some of the most advanced factories in the country, churning out products for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.

In suburban Frankfurt, for example, sits one of Continental's most advanced factories, making electronic braking systems.

Development of a new generation of chips can cost more than $100 million, and an advanced factory, more than $1 billion, making cost-sharing necessary.

This is considered to be an advanced marine factory; it is newer than most of its competitors factories.