American workers increased their productivity by 1.4 percent last year.

Much additional work has to be done to increase productivity further.

If businesses are to increase productivity, however, they must have the help of their workers' best efforts.

"Clinton places more emphasis on education and training to increase the nation's productivity."

The point was to increase productivity by creating good will with employees.

The need to increase productivity became an obsession for him.

"Instead, we should be working to open markets, to increase our productivity and to meet the competition head on."

He said Mercedes needed to increase productivity, "in the sense of getting more with less."

Instead, they struggled to increase productivity and lower the cost of labor.

The aim has been to increase productivity in the wine industry.