"This is gun safety where a manufacturer comes before us and says it will do what it can to make our communities safer."

"That was amusing, but in fact the manufacturers came back with much cleaner ways to cook outdoors."

Now, over the last four years, Korean manufacturers have been coming on very strong.

About $1.3 billion will come from United States manufacturers.

"If a manufacturer would come into the state of Connecticut and bring in 15,000 jobs, would these people be up in arms?"

"The manufacturers come here for the shows, but if they can't be here, we will be."

His argument was that artisans and manufacturers would come to France only in proportion to the size of the internal market for their goods.

The manufacturers themselves come at the issue from a different perspective.

And manufacturers, hit harder than anyone else by the slowing growth, have come close to using the "R" word.

American manufacturers came along later so they produced ball bearings in metric dimensions prior to the early-1990s.