Gray and Burke also consider industry groups when selecting stocks.

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California financial privacy legislation was introduced in 2000 and 2001, but died as industry lobbyists, and then-Gov. Gray Davis , worked to assure its defeat.

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Union convenor Jimmy Gray, who along with local MP David Stewart, has scheduled a meeting with Industry Minister Helen Liddell this week, was one of four officials on the trip.

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While the financial services industry is mostly black and white, the American investor is a varying shade of gray.

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