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Midlands

n. 英国中部

It wants to develop Birmingham as a business centre on a European and world-wide basis. Mr Moore says: 'The West Midlands is attempting to revive economically by attracting new investment in industry.
In quick succession, he became general manager for East Anglia and the east Midlands, then head of a new corporate banking division.
The new plant will, in the first instance, supply cylinder heads for shipment to Ford of Germany. Transtec already employs more than 2,000 people in 12 wholly-owned subsidiary operations, most of them in the West Midlands.
East Midlands Electricity (EME) has injected working capital of Pounds 200,000 into the Phambili Nombane joint venture signed at the end of 1993 with South African and French partners.
Another plus for Midlands is that it is has the ability, if it needs to, to claw back a fair chunk of the Pounds 33m from customers because of previous under-recovery in tariffs.
The west Midlands was the best-performing region in 1993 with salary increases of 6 per cent for PAs and 5 per cent for secretaries. Alfred Marks said differentials between secretaries in London and elsewhere had been eroded.
On giant test beds in Derby, in the British Midlands, Rolls-Royce has begun running the Trent 800: the most powerful commercial aircraft engine it has ever built.
The merger has given Dibb Lupton the presence in the west Midlands that it needed to further its ambitions to become the first truly national law firm in England - a title the constituent firms of the Eversheds group might dispute.
The developers are the city council and Lincoln Green Energy, a subsidiary of East Midlands Electricity.
By the early 1980s the development corporation had received permission to spread its net beyond the West Midlands.
Midlands Electricity will supply the power to domestic users. Tyre distributors including subsidiaries of Michelin, Pirelli and Goodyear have signed contracts with Elm Energy.
Of the Pounds 75.5m, Pounds 49.1m was written off the value of land in the south and Pounds 22.4m against the Midlands.
By then it hopes cable will have expanded to such an extent that it will be available in 1.3m homes in London and 11.5m in the rest of the country. Mr Aston said: 'By this time next year we hope to be in the Midlands.'
In the Midlands 53 per cent said they were more hopeful about their own company's prospects. These upbeat assessments were reflected in improved business volumes.
A Midlands company which sells plastic buckets door to door recently announced profits up by 75 per cent. Granted, some of the lessons to be drawn from many recession-proof stories are not entirely cheerful.
In 1986-90, 21 per cent of British inward investment projects went to the west Midlands, a figure that dropped to 14 per cent last year.
The West Midlands car industry will lose 40,000 people this year.'
It is now in the middle of a retrenchment programme of a type which has become familiar in Midlands industry.
South Wales shares eased 3 to 809p while Midlands climbed 11 to 787p.
The British Midlands Boeing 737-400, bound from London for Belfast, had 126 people on board and police reported at least 32 died.
East Midlands Electricity is to give Pounds 186m back to its shareholders in a special interim dividend payment.
First, Safe Bet would provide an ideal way to spread the operations of Honest & John geographically, taking advantage of Safe Bet's 25 outlets across the West Midlands.
Theresa Stewart, the current Labour leader, faces difficult elections in May. Does she favour either Gordon or Wyatt? The last woman chief executive in the West Midlands - at Sandwell - eventually decamped for New Zealand.
But he stressed that the ultimate aim must be to preserve as much of British Coal as possible. The UDM and East Midlands consortium is preparing plans for a buy-out that would include a 20 per cent stake for employees.
The party has high hopes of picking up seats in north-west England and possibly the east Midlands.
Unions could take a lead by insisting that such issues became integral to collective bargaining. The industry is concentrated in north-west England, the east Midlands, the Scottish borders and Ulster. Training in the Textile and Clothing Industries.
Foreign investment in the West Midlands is increasing after three years of decline.
Plans for house buying have been steady for four months, it says. The increases in spending intentions were particularly marked in the north and south of the country, but spending plans in the Midlands were reined back.
The jet developed trouble in its left engine but the pilots mistakenly shut off the right engine before attempting an emergency landing at East Midlands airport near Kegworth, 20 miles northwest of Leicester.
The latest poll found that just over half of businesses expected to increase orders in this quarter compared with a year ago, while 42 per cent expected no change. The north-west and west Midlands appeared to be the most confident regions.

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