Many others are ready to be put in action despite industry claims to the contrary.
Despite industry backing for several subscription-based online music services, such as Rhapsody, pressplay and MusicNet, response has been tepid.
Despite an industry-wide consensus that aluminum prices would fall in 2008, the opposite has happened.
Despite the industry's current turmoil and future uncertainties, it has much to look forward to.
Despite the industry's decline (e-mails are replacing faxes), fax sales, along with rentals and supplies, provide 70% of Imagistics' gross profits.
Even more striking, journalism schools, despite the industry's relatively low pay and its current financial woes, are also attracting students in numbers that the schools themselves cannot fathom.
But despite the industry's best efforts to create an easy-to-navigate "smart" television, an old-fashioned computer is still the easiest way to search for and discover TV shows and movies at your convenience.
HCA, despite being the industry's leader, controls less than 5% of the market.
Seeing a potential for the industry despite its tiny asset base and somewhat disreputable image, FORBES put a spotlight on funds.
Ebookers.com has joined the round of dot.com operations to report brisk trade despite the travel industry downturn stemming from the 11 September attacks.
But despite collaboration with industry giants in the West, Bollywood remains to its core an Indian product, tailored exclusively to the Indian masses.
Despite years of industry cache, both lose money, tout share prices in the single digits and just couldn't close down stores fast enough in 2010.
Ms Ratra said her mother "kept herself away from the glamour of the industry despite being one of the top singers of her era as she did not like limelight".
As the reputation of Basque sheep herders grew, an infrastructure of boarding houses quickly sprang up to direct immigrant Basques into the burgeoning American sheep industry despite the antipathy of the cattle ranchers who wanted the land for themselves.
" Ronovech goes on to explain that, despite the semiconductor industry being out of favor due to concerns about the global economic slowdown, he expects that "even a modest continuation of global economic recovery should drive growth in demand for semiconductor test equipment in 2011.
The airline industry, despite usually loaded planes, is drowning in red ink because of rising fuel costs.
Facebook was high and according to industry sources despite the change in date, the conversation never really flagged.
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The clean-tech sector in general has not been the hottest of sectors for the venture industry, despite some individual success stories.
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Unlike other developing countries, Indonesia saw an expansion of cottage industry, despite the shortage of capital for women who wanted to start their own businesses.
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Profits rose 36% last year, despite Asia crisis and industry overcapacity.
In fact, the agency has yet to issue draft regulations for comment, despite many in the industry asserting that the staff completed a draft last fall.
The pharmaceutical industry, despite a golden age of biology that has unraveled mysteries of the genetic code and yielded miracle drugs that save thousands of lives, may be on the brink of a backlash.
As for anti-trust concerns, there will be hearings and teeth-gnashing, especially in Europe, where Steven Ballmer and company remain the bugaboo of the technology industry, despite having settled their issues in the United States long ago.
The pharmaceutical industry, despite a golden age of biology that has unraveled mysteries of the genetic code and yielded miracle drugs that save thousands of lives, may be on the brink of getting hit by a backlash.
"Identity Thief" came in above industry expectations despite the storm and poor reviews for the comedy, which stars Bateman as a man chasing down a con artist (McCarthy) who has racked up thousands of dollars of charges in his name.
Despite the tumult, the industry lauds that the annual festival is continuing, and growing.
Despite his disdain for meat industry practices, Bourdain thinks the push for an all-vegetarian diet is off-base.
However, the industry has survived despite these stereotypes and it still continues to attract top talent across the world.
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