Mr Ackroyd leads a trade association, the Property Buyers' Association, and is pressing for regulation.
Minneapolis is the fourth-largest printing center in the U.S., according to Printing Industry Midwest, a trade association.
But fortunately for AWEA, it's not a tough time to be a trade association touting the virtues of wind power.
"It would be a nightmare, " says William Reinsch, who runs a trade association that represents companies like Microsoft, Oracle and ExxonMobil.
For this reason the Olympics will boost food sales more than non-food products, predicts the British Retail Consortium, a trade association.
In a speech to a trade association six weeks ago, I discussed the partisanship and imbalance that would eventually destroy our political system.
The group also committed to advance sustainability reporting through the World Federation of Exchanges, a trade association of 54 publicly regulated stock, futures and options exchanges.
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade association, believes that digital music sales will account for 25% of all recorded music sales by 2010.
"We thought it was going to take us 10 to 15 years to recover from the wine glut, " says Francine Bryan Brown, spokeswoman for Wine Australia, a trade association.
The computer and video game industry employs more than 120, 000 people, a figure that will grow, said Rich Taylor, a spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association, a trade association.
Because the NCAA is a trade association governed by its members, its threat to ban a given member is generally subject to antitrust scrutiny under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
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Critics of the deal, including the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade association that represents thousands of traditional radio and television stations, contend that the merger would eliminate competition and create a monopoly.
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The other three trade bodies that agreed to the new charter are the BCCA, a trade association for lenders offering short-term loans, the Consumer Credit Trade Association and the Finance and Leasing Association.
The Elysian hotel in Chicago, which opened in December, has adopted a no-tipping policy, a move that breaks with standard practices across the high-end- and luxury-hotel market, says the head of a trade association.
Today a trade association for the mutual fund industry, the Investment Company Institute (ICI), released a study that reveals some surprising news: People who are just retiring now are better off financially than previous generations.
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According to the lawsuit filed this week, the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid, a trade association holding rights to the certified Solingen knife collection, are suing Stewart, Lagasse and the Home Shopping Network.
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For example, four of the seven biggest manufacturers of birth control drugs and devices donated to a trade association supporting Republicans who were presumably pro-business, but who had also vowed to limit access to birth control-related products.
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Since 1983, when the SEC revised its rules governing money market funds, there has been only one instance of a money market fund paying investors less than the principal they invested, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade association for U.S. investment companies.
In Bottineau, North Dakota, partners Ronald Bergman and Paul Sund scoured trade magazines, joined a trade association and wrote out a list of potential customers and key decision-makers who might handle their invention -- a power broom to deal with snow, leaves and dirt.
While the recall involves hundreds of millions of eggs, they represent less than 1 percent of the 80 billion eggs produced in the United States each year, said Krista Eberle, director of the food safety program at the Egg Safety Center, a trade association entity.
Although the NRA is ostensibly an organisation seeking to protect the civil rights of its 4m members, critics such as the Violence Policy Centre (VPC), a gun-control group, contend that the level of funding from firearms manufacturers makes it, in effect, just a trade association for the gun industry.
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This happened in the NFL in 1989 and remained the situation until 1993 when the players association reorganized following a successful court battle with the NFL. After decertification, the players association would become a trade association that players could be a member of voluntarily (the current players association is not voluntary).
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.
"In San Francisco, you could spend a year or two paying rent through the permit process, " said Rob Black, director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, a nonprofit trade association.
As head of a national trade association of technology companies, I am often in the heart of Washington, where I can see, up close, the rot in our system.
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The event, organized by a fledgling trade association called the Carbon Management Council, contemplated impacts on business as governments seek to check global warming with restrictions on carbon emissions.
Retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) in August increased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted over July and 6 percent unadjusted year-over-year, according to the monthly survey by the National Retail Federation, a retail trade association.
The Hall of Fame honor was bestowed by the Tennis Industry Association, a non-profit trade association based in South Carolina.
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The European Union long ago moved away from being merely a free-trade association.
SIFMA, a financial industry trade association, says it has 5, 490 people dealing with various subcommittees, almost all devoted to Dodd-Frankery.
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