House building industry body Homes for Scotland described the overall rise in lending for house purchases in the second quarter as "positive news", as it demonstrated that the demand for home ownership still existed in Scotland.
Much of the US house building industry, however, is now dominated by large-scale builders, such as Toll Brothers or DR Horton, which are listed companies.
The White House and industry groups contend the legislation would benefit trial lawyers and force many employers to drop their health care coverage because of higher costs, estimated to rise 4.2 percent over five years.
The White House hopes that industry groups will develop codes of conduct in keeping with our new digital privacy rights.
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On tobacco, McCain would again have public opinion behind him, but he also had to please an array of constituencies: Democrats, Republicans, the White House, the industry, plaintiffs' lawyers and hard-line public health groups represented by former Surgeon General C.
But with the White House, the food industry and the FDA behind it, the bill could be law before the end of the year.
Of course the same set of facts seems a violation to many in-house compliance officers and industry regulators because it subverts, compromises, and circumvents perhaps the most critical of all first lines of defense: knowledge of a customer complaint.
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Then, when the agency began to draft rules, it was harassed by Wall Street, Republicans in the House and the insurance industry into justifying it through a tortuous cost-benefit analysis, which has tied it up in bureaucratic purgatory for more than two years.
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Not much, if a report on April 7th by the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee is any guide.
And, Qatar-based businessman Hesham Ismail AbdulRahman Al Emadi is leading an ambitious project to create a global network of " Energy Cities" to house the oil and gas industry.
Clearnet, a swaps clearing-house, is part of an industry-wide dash to grab some of the action (see article).
Hughes said the travel industry approached the White House about the ad, which features excerpts from a Sept. 27 speech that Bush made to airline workers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Representative Darrell Issa (R- CA), who seems generally opposed to regulating the auto industry, leads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which issued a report on August 10th showing that foreign automakers complained about the process.
The Apparel Industry Partnership, a group put together by the White House that includes activists and apparel firms, agreed in November to create an industry-wide code, although some campaigners have pulled out.
Both of these internet property industry businesses produce their own house price surveys each month.
The Scottish White Fish Producers' Association accused the commission of having "tunnel vision" and said the industry had already put its house in order.
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American companies, industry groups, the White House and Congress are united on the issue, says Robert Merges, who teaches intellectual property law at the University of California-Berkeley.
The construction industry is heavily reliant on house building and repairs, along with the government's capital investment programme, particularly in water infrastructure, roads, education and health.
But to have the vast majority of a commission that had a profound impact upon White House-level policy so unbalanced towards industry executives and consultants is also irresponsible.
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One, Harriet Harman, was later sacked from her job as secretary of state for social security, and another, Margaret Beckett, was demoted from secretary of state for trade and industry to leader of the House of Commons.
The Chafee-Harkin-Graham bill is the first embraced by the White House that includes legal protections for the tobacco industry.
In 1995, when I bought my house, staging wasn't yet an industry.
It was a Bush administration priority that nearly failed despite heavy lobbying by the White House, GOP House leaders, lobbyists for the health care industry and senior citizens.
Clinton gets three picks, and a White House official told the AP that the gambling industry would get no more than one or two of the president's selections.
This gambit is so controversial (and cynical) that the word on Capitol Hill and in industry circles is that the White House will bigfoot HHS and make the final decision on the Advantage cuts.
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It would be a power house and the culture it created would transform the industry.
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Nine people with ties to the gaming industry have attended Clinton's White House coffees in the past two years.
Lord Sainsbury is to become an unpaid junior minister for the House of Lords in the Department for Trade and Industry.
His reluctance faded amid Oracle's faltering in-house efforts and his own view that the software industry was slowing down and might never reaccelerate.
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