The impact on the food industry of the spread of the domestic refrigerator in the 20th century was rivalled only by that of the car, which changed the face of retailing by allowing supermarkets to develop.
The health insurance industry operates on the spread between what it charges the consumer and what it allows providers to spend.
Born in 1920s Europe, the Art Deco aesthetic -- inspired by advances in technology and industry -- quickly spread across the Atlantic.
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Meanwhile an industry using deadly materials spread across more than 40 countries may be about to expand farther and wider, as from Venezuela to Vietnam governments contemplate nuclear power as a source of cleaner energy.
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Fossil fuel industry-funded groups gleefully spread the e-mails online and badgered the mainstream media into covering the "controversy" they had manufactured.
Horseracing is in the hands of the Jockey Club and the British Horseracing Board, while the growing spread-betting industry is controlled by the Financial Services Authority.
Though fast flux was originally developed by a Russian group of phishers in 2006, the tactic spread widely through the industry this past year.
The scale of Merck's problems will spread alarm through an industry that has seen both its reputation and money-making potential take several heavy hits of late.
The pain was spread across almost every industry, with software being one of only two industries of the 17 tracked to experience growth in 2012 (albeit the largest industry receiving 31% of venture financing).
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We started out with aid to banks, of course that's now spread to the auto industry, and just this week we're finding out that the GMAC, this giant company that provides auto loans, is also getting help.
Not only industry but also public services will be spread more fairly with medical facilities and schools upgraded.
If you follow the tech industry, you know that new products spread into the market in a predictable way.
NPR's Chris Arnold talked to former employees of the company who offer a window into the hyper-aggressive practices that allegedly spread through the subprime lending industry during the housing boom.
Perhaps, in a time of abundant liquidity, they thought that all the slicing and dicing done by the mortgage industry and its Wall Street allies had spread the risk sufficiently thin that a genuine productivity payoff in finance was at hand and no great upset was in store.
With unsold inventory piling up throughout the technology industry, price-cutting looks likely to spread.
RIM, of Waterloo, Ontario, is a frequent target of patent lawsuits, as the spread of cellphones makes the wireless industry among the most active battlegrounds for intellectual-property disputes.
There is an expanding oil and gas industry, but this does not generate jobs and spread cash around as the cod fishery once did, before over-fishing destroyed it.
The timing of the H7N9 spread may also be unfortunate for the auto industry.
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And this tends to spread across most of the candidates, lawyers and entertainment industry people, not surprisingly, lean toward Democrats.
"That certainly might have minimized the impact on the industry but, in our opinion, it would have allowed much quicker spread in parts of the state, " he said.
"I don't believe it (the industry) would be substantially harmed and I believe that the success could be spread around a little more, " Sir George said.
The scandal has spread across Europe as details of the elaborate supply chain in the meat industry emerge.
The crisis has spread across Europe as details of the convoluted supply chain in the meat industry emerged.
And industry observers such as Ameet Shah of PRTM, a consultancy, expect consolidation to spread the burden, either through sharing of networks or outright mergers, as Orange and T-Mobile plan in Britain.
These tools may be useful in identifying people considered to be industry experts who would be of value to engage with and might be able to help spread your brands message.
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Before Anonymous, the industry was seeing demand for DDoS-type technology focused primarily in Asia, but since then it had spread around the world.
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Companies like Rhapsody and Spotify have helped spread the peer to peer sharing model while slowing down illegal downloads by now offering the music industry a portion of the ad revenue they generate.
With a more accurate picture of whether dud loans to one country or industry should go hand-in-hand with dud loans to another, banks should be able to spread their lending risks more wisely.
The sheer rapidity of the spread of mobile phones would be enough to explain why wireless is the most exciting area of the telecommunications industry.
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