Novartis Chief Executive Daniel Vasella has been the industry's great philosopher on dealmaking, but he has yet to buy another branded drugmaker.
The Centre has been conducting the industry survey for more than a decade to track trends.
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This transition has been difficult for the industry, which has historically not been inclined to sing its own praises or engage proactively with the press or with the government.
Naturally, I would argue that a 25 year old should start a company, under the guidance and coaching of an older mentor who has been in the industry before.
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The wireless segment, which has been the primary source of growth through the industry, has been rapidly decelerating.
An issue of contention has been whether the industry ought to be liable for punitive damages.
Yet industry experts say the biggest factor has been the rising cost of the industry's new investment boom.
New license sales are seeing support rates of around 22%, which has been the norm in the industry for quite some time.
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And the other sector that's still weak has been the construction industry.
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Kellogg has been the cereal industry's leader almost since the day W.K. Kellogg and his physician brother began selling corn flakes to former sanatorium patients in 1906.
Wine has long been the industry leader in terms of label customization, but the wineries offering this service at the individual level tend to be of lesser prestige.
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"Technology is nice phones and everything but for window cleaning, I can't see it, " said William Coffey, who works for Manhattan-based Skyway Window Cleaning and has been in the industry for three decades.
With this formula the company has been leading the retail industry in same store sales growth throughout this difficult economic time.
The FBI has been investigating the oil industry's influence on the state legislature, and three lawmakers are now in jail for bribery.
Union activists have said the issue has been simmering in the industry for years, with British workers being excluded from applying for some jobs.
While the Chemical Manufacturers Association has been the most vocal industry advocate of the Chemical Weapons Convention, it represents only some 190 of the companies expected to be covered by the treaty.
In places like Texas and Louisiana, where the population has been used to the industry being around on a constant basis for many years, the public overwhelmingly approves of the industry and appreciates the economic development it invariably brings along with it.
While the first quarter has historically been slow for the industry, the sluggish demand has unexpectedly continued early into the second quarter.
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Mario Gomez - at 63 the oldest of the men, who has been in the mining industry since the age of 12 - wrote the now famous note: "Estamos bien en el refugio los 33 - All 33 of us are fine in the refuge".
Advertising industry has been both a catalyst and beneficiary of these desires as the industry has been on a continuous growth trajectory with only temporary slowdowns at times.
Marcegaglia Group, a family-owned steel company, has been the only one in the industry in Italy not to fire a large portion of its staff, says Ms Marcegaglia.
Production improvement has been the focus in the oil industry as firms investing heavily on locating, drilling and completing oil wells seek to maximize their returns by improving recovery rates.
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Now Japan has woken up to the fact that it has been the only country not fighting the currency war and consequently its industry and economy has been hammered by its over-priced currency.
But potentially most impactful in the building industry has been the attention from the White House and President Obama.
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The past fortnight has been turbulent for the tech industry.
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The decline has since slowed, Mr. Fain said, but the industry has also been affected by slumping economies in mainstay markets Europe and the U.S. "Given that we've had to face two such great shocks, we're lucky it isn't worse, " Mr. Fain said.
Historically the housing industry has been a leading indicator for the economy and stock market, problems in the housing industry leading the economy into slowdowns and recessions, and recovery in the housing industry leading the economy into recovery.
The European Commission, which has been considering outlawing the European industry's system of selling cars through exclusive dealerships, had been due to rule on the matter in 2002.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, who co-wrote the Hatch-Waxman Act, has been very vocal in arguing that a law Congress intended to help reduce the cost of prescription medicines has been hijacked by the drug industry to do the opposite.
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