And that has created a cottage industry of influencers for hire, repurposing, or simply listening to.
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Nonetheless, a cottage industry has sprung up to sell gadgets that supposedly shield callers from cellular radiation.
Indeed, suing Wal-Mart is now a cottage industry, with some 5, 000 lawsuits filed against the company each year.
That's why a cottage industry of 115, 000 individual financial planners has emerged in recent years to hold people's hands.
It has already spawned a cottage industry of companies offering to format recordings, for fees that can get steep.
Calling the timing of the peak or the price where gold tops has become a cottage industry these days.
"The Abu Sayyaf has made a cottage industry out of kidnapping, " says Sen.
The crush of visitors has spawned a cottage industry of spinoffs, ranging from the Qin Army Hostel to Qin Army Powdered Milk.
"It's almost like there's a cottage industry of people now trying to get famous by turning things into a meme, " he said.
They're calling it Carbox, and it's inspired a green streak in corporate culture--and spawned a cottage industry to deal with the problem.
As art and tech circles overlap more frequently, a cottage industry of dealers and specialized consultants has sprung up to offer advice.
"That really has created kind of a cottage industry to regulate warfarin therapy, " says Jonathan Halperin, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Starting with the campaign to end apartheid in South Africa two decades ago, a cottage industry known as "socially responsible investing" has sprung up.
The contrived complexity of the SSDI system has spawned a cottage industry of doctors and specialized legal teams to navigate the byzantine multi-tiered documentation process.
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This year investigators have noticed a cottage industry of people with DVD burners creating their own copies of pirate disks and selling them on auction websites.
"Private equity has historically been a cottage industry, but now it's getting much larger in scale and is moving towards a degree of institutionalization, " he told Forbes.com.
"They have created literally a cottage industry solely devoted to access and making money off the access, " said Sean Spicer, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.
But the real problem goes deeper: although game-production costs are quickly rising to almost Hollywood levels, the game business itself is still organised like a cottage industry.
But that hasn't stopped a cottage industry of self-appointed consumer advocates, reporters and plaintiffs' attorneys from fingering corn syrup as the sinister source of the nation's widening waistline.
"Some of these guys confuse being on television with being an actor, " says Brian Monaco, a talent manager who's developed a cottage industry working with Real World veterans.
Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.
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Buying fakes is more socially acceptable than ever before and consumer demand has fuelled the growth of counterfeiting from something like a cottage industry to a global business.
Until Atlanta, making soccer balls was largely a cottage industry.
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The challenge that the sciences pose to many different faiths has spawned a cottage industry of books on how to reconcile Darwinian evolution with belief in a benevolent God.
In parallel with the commission's work, there has now arisen a cottage industry of constitutional authors and pamphleteers keen to drive Mr Blair beyond the removal of the hereditaries.
Even back in the '50s, rivals like Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead claimed there was more to Hogan's secret than he was letting on, and a cottage industry was born.
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Executives, former Goldman partners and Wall Street rivals have made a cottage industry of speculating how much longer Mr. Blankfein, who took the helm in mid-2006, may stay on as Goldman's chief.
Gottlieb, founded in 1927, helped spawn a cottage industry in Chicago, where for decades big companies like Bally and Williams built their machines and sourced their parts within a dozen blocks of one another.
It's a cottage industry that goes from local pizza vendors on the street to the factories of Asia, which supply most of the "throws" -- beads, cups, stuffed animals and other trinkets of carnival.
Where, for that matter, is Mr. Krugman's outrage about the fact that MSNBC has made a cottage industry of hiring virulent Bush-haters and promoting their conspiracy theories about Mr. Bush's imperial and unconstitutional ambitions?
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