Since the fine fragrance industry as a whole has taken a beating during the recession (the NPD Group says American department store sales have been down 15% from 2007 to 2009), some companies are even playing with their distribution models.
Amid all this innovation, you might think that the global technology industry was in fine fettle.
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All that, combined with an industry-wide emissions fine imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and recessions overseas, led to the big charges last year.
The oil industry is doing just fine.
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Warner used the trip to the nation's capital to indulge in his first fine dining experience, exposure to an industry that would become his life's work.
The topic of this debate, kids' privacy, has forced app developers and industry representatives to walk a fine line to avoid being seen as insensitive to an issue parents care deeply about.
Professor Roy Harrison, a member of two UK government advisory committees on air pollution, said US research had provided strong evidence that fine particles contained in emissions from vehicles and industry caused cancer.
One of Mr. Talbot's favorites is a fine, stiff netlike fabric used by the automobile industry as a support material between upholstery and metal or impact-resistant plastics.
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Those who practice the fine art of forecasting supply and demand for the oil industry had a banner year.
In 2004 the airline lost its licence to operate for an offence that industry sources say is normally punishable by a fine.
The report comes as a blow to the venture capital industry, which presents itself as something of a fine wine: a long-term asset class that only gets better with age.
All the senators present said they hope to give her commission a lot more money, which is fine, says Carter Keithley, the president of the Toy Industry Association, as long as the government doesn't try to replace the testing the private sector is already doing.
All fine and good, but the risk is that this enthusiasm for promoting industry slides into protectionism.
That would be fine if it were merely the result of the zeal with which the industry has upgraded its wires.
Reuters: John Griffith-Jones, chairman of KPMG in Europe, said the banking industry is built on confidence and that full disclosure is absolutely fine in a stable environment.
The national trade association for fine jewelry retailers in the U.S. has tapped a jewelry industry veteran and the former manager of a competing tradeshow for its top post.
Such a small fine will fuel suspicion that the self-regulatory body is too close to the industry.
Little of that fits into what the luxury industry has typically offered with its peddling of status, image, and fine materials.
While the port wine industry remains strong, local grapes are now also being used to make fine red and white table wines that are attracting much foreign interest.
Tevez, a rare bright spark for United, continued to play the workhorse role up front, though, and moments after the Argentine's industry had almost set Rooney free in the box, he drilled a fine effort over.
That is fine if it means they will not be passing the hat round in Washington, the way that the car industry does.
The long, plastic-shelled body did a fine job of standing apart from the push toward all-screen slates that has gripped the vast majority of the industry over the past several years.
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He ran for the California assembly and scored an upset victory, and then successfully led the charge to overhaul that state's chaotically corrupt regulation of the liquor industry, to reform its inefficient, labyrinthine water system and to save San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts.
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