It makes no sense, for instance, to reindustrialize an economy that is based not on industry, but on the production and distribution of information.

In 1946 the occupying powers agreed to put strict limits on how quickly Germany could reindustrialize.

Mr. Pataki's initiative, he added, comes at a time when there is an "unprecedented push" to "reindustrialize" the Hudson basin, particularly by utility companies hoping to build power plants along the river.

The small city of McKeesport, Pa., once thrummed with steel and glass factories; in 1996, two couples decided to "reindustrialize" the town with a crafts community of small studios.

"Instead of merging corporations, purging workers and submerging the economy, we must have the four R's: reinvest in America; retrain our workers; reindustrialize our nation and research for commercial development."

However, complete dissolution of the zaibatsu was never achieved, mostly because U.S. government rescinded the orders in an effort to reindustrialize Japan as a bulwark against Communism in Asia.

Freeze on Military Spending Mr. Jackson said Mr. Dukakis had proposed spending $500 million a year to "reindustrialize the nation," or rebuild bridges, roads and the nation's transportation infrastructure.