And getting back to your last guest, the thing that the auto industry looks at - really three things that they look at - are the strength of the housing market, the strength of jobs and consumer confidence when they go to predict how the industry is going to do.
Back then, Ford had to go outside the auto industry to find a textile manufacturer capable of producing recycled fabric.
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Progress: Just weeks after our story appeared, the USDA gave the go- ahead to the meat industry to use irradiation, which destroys bacteria by showering meat with electrons, gamma rays or x rays.
Mario Monti, Europe's competition commissioner, now plans to go after the industry over connection fees for fixed-line calls.
For Mr Bush, who has openly campaigned to defend the interests of the oil industry, to go suddenly weak at the knees about high oil prices is bizarre.
Whether they choose someone from within the company or go to a different industry altogether, the choice should be groundbreaking.
Private equity still has a long way to go, though, until the industry has ceased to be a source of fear and misapprehension.
Recent graduates with a computer science degree are far more likely to go into the tech industry, where offers are more lucrative.
Being unfocused, on the other hand, while very difficult to do, offers the greatest chance to go for the brass ring of not just being an industry leaders, but the industry platform.
If the semiconductor industry is anything to go by, once the price of biochips starts falling, it will keep falling.
The idea behind the cable bid is to act as a go-between in the industry's consolidation, then wriggle out, perhaps through a stockmarket listing.
While I was away, I decided never to go back into the automotive industry.
It is now slated to go into effect July 1, giving the industry a three-month extension to invest in and adjust their computer and reporting systems.
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Based on their logic, "the government is funding the movie industry every time AFSCME members go out to the movies, " he said.
If the deal is permitted to go through, the U.S. beer industry will become that much less competitive and give ABI even more control over beer prices for Americans, the suit argues.
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And few independent observers doubt the damage wrought by Mitt Romney's opposition to the bailout - and the infamous line, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" that headlined his plan to save the industry.
The recorded music industry tried to go after consumers when illegal downloads of music took off on the Internet, but the strategy turned off customers and did little to dent illegal downloading activity.
The telecommunications industry will go through some deregulation to make companies more competitive over the next five years.
"We deliberately chose to concentrate on excellence, and while we have a long way to go, we've chosen to set ourselves apart from the wider industry, " Mintz says.
There's still a long way for the industry to go in any case.
Now, as Gordon Orr, who works in McKinsey's Shanghai office points out, the prizes go to the top few firms in any industry.
In talking with consulting alumni who had gone to industry, he learned that in order to gain real industry expertise he would have to go to work on the client side.
The financial industry still has a long way to go to fix itself, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) deputy director general has said.
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Second, the go-to-market execution (as it's called in the industry) was imperfect.
The decision to go public went against the grain in a hyper-competitive retail industry that has been rapidly consolidating through mergers and private buyouts.
Then they have a real incentive to go out shopping for lower-cost coverage, and the industry and insurers have strong incentives to find cheaper ways of giving people the basic things they need.
As more companies owned by private-equity firms go bust, the industry will have to admit its sins.
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