For example, in the ethanol business, it is almost inconceivable that there is any investment in plant or equipment whose return matches that from the political investment that has provided the industry a combination of direct subsidies, mandated use, and protection from foreign competitors.
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"Our Voice-Activated Navigation System integration allows us to enrich the AppLink experience even further, giving customers an industry-first combination of voice control and touch-screen access to the apps stored on their mobile phones, " said Julius Marchwicki, Ford SYNC product manager.
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This new inkjet series is a game-changer for the printing industry delivering the ultimate combination of form and function.
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It was precisely this pattern that gave rise to the biggest merger in the history of the aerospace industry, the 1997 combination of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.
"We are pleased to offer the next generation tri-band solution that brings the industry's first combination of Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac and the newly ratified 802.11ad capabilities together on one card, " said Vivek Gupta , vice president of computing, Qualcomm Atheros.
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Finance is also a boom industry, fuelled by an explosive combination of economic growth, demography, technology and financial innovation.
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"The combination of changes that the industry now faces requires epic rather than incremental responses, " it added.
We hope be a catalyst for the industry, by bringing together an unrivaled combination of platform, products and services.
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Instead, industry executives say, the appeal is a combination of exclusivity and the pride of owning a driving machine capable of scorching up a racecourse even if it never does.
Mr. Sonderling's reported adventures were the talk of Wall Street, an industry that has had its own obsession with the combination of money, power and sex.
With its combination of dangerous mining and heavy-industry jobs and a legal system that makes it hard to overturn generous verdicts--appeals go straight to the state Supreme Court, which can accept or reject them as it pleases--West Virginia ranked 50th for the third year in a row in the Chamber survey.
This combination should drive sizable synergies and the consolidated industry is likely to exhibit better price discipline going forward.
Such a combination is expected by many in the music industry.
Historically, this combination has provided adequate incentives for the software industry.
In some instances, a combination of public stocks and reduced obligation on industry is used, and it would be up to each country to decide how make additional oil available to the market.
The last time that happened was a decade ago, when a combination of recession and the Gulf war ravaged the industry.
He eventually managed to consolidate much of the industry into the highly successful Swatch Group, deploying a unique combination of business insight and organizational and people management.
This can be measured by whether the combined market share of the companies is higher and whether the combination strengthens the capabilities needed to prevail in the industry.
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Unless the SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority craft strong rules, Mr. Abshure said, a combination of fraud, high failure rates for startups and an "inevitable advertising onslaught of pie-in-the-sky offers" will kill investor confidence in buying shares online.
John Martin, Gilead chief executive, catapulted the company to the top of the biotech industry with his wise acquisitions in HIV, allowing the first single-pill combination treatments for that disease.
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which manages the country's state-owned oil industry, expects oil production to reach 40 billion barrels by 2010 through a combination of domestic and foreign investments.
While some will say it's a reach to use the baseball-card industry to explain economics, the economy as we know it is merely the combination of infinite individual decisions made on a daily basis, including those made with baseball cards.
In this context, Senator Rockefeller asked the U.S. General Accountability Office to assess the state of the coal industry given the negative externalities that it now faces: a tougher EPA in combination with cheap natural gas prices and declining coal reserves that are harder to dig out in the Appalachian region.
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The combination of data science and management skills will create the next generation of industry leaders.
Critics of a Google-ITA combination say it would give Google a further leg up in the search industry, which it dominates.
Inasmuch as Mr Malone has a vision, it is that the combination of broadband cable with digital interactive television is creating an entirely new media industry and that Liberty is perfectly placed to shape it.
The combination of these components coupled with the Internet and mobile Internet technology will form an emerging industry.
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The combination of these capabilities makes mobile platforms a potentially huge disruptive force for innovation in nearly every industry.
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The combination of mobile broadband and cheap netbooks will resolve a long-running argument within the technology industry about the relative merits of computers and mobile phones as tools to promote development.
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