Only by re-configuring the technological basics, they argue, can the airline industry square the circle of meeting increased demand for air travel while at the same time reducing the environmental damage caused by such travel.
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In order to accommodate Shanghai VW and the 30 component suppliers who have already signed up for sites, the city fathers expanded the Yizheng zone that is devoted to the auto industry from 20 square kilometers to its present size of 38.9 square kilometers.
Industry special pleading helps square legislators' hostility to online betting with their willingness to allow online state lotteries and online betting on horse racing.
Leading the industry in sales per square foot, which Wal-Mart does thanks partly to its extraneous businesses like auto service and (now) healthcare, is a huge advantage in the retail world.
But Ed Roski is unique in that he has so masterfully exploited the special circumstances of 15-square-mile Industry to earn his place among the nation's richest men.
There was every excuse for a blow-out: the firm's fortunes have risen with those of the Italian tile industry, which produced 572m square metres in 1997, compared with only 200m square metres in 1973.
Square made a splash in the industry by providing small credit card readers to smaller businesses, giving them the capability to accept credit cards using smartphones and tablets.
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"People deserve to be able to travel in comfort, and the industry has been trying to fit all the square pegs into round holes and hasn't been taking into account that for a lot of people, traveling by air is an uncomfortable experience, " he said.
This strategy is being pursued in tandem with opening smaller-sized mobile stand-alone stores which increase average revenue per square feet, a key performance measure for this industry.
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But the bigger question haunting the government is how to square its promises of creating more jobs and saving industry with the reality of a deteriorating economic outlook and tight public finances.
Michael Hulme at Lehman Brothers said the weakness of the figures were hard to square with robust anecdotal evidence from the Confederation of British Industry, John Lewis and others.
Historically, the revenue per square foot for Anthropologie stores has been one of the highest in the industry.
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He believes it is possible to square the circle - to do high-quality basic-research and benefit industry.
Keith Rabois, the former COO of Square, has joined Khosla Ventures in a major move in the venture capital industry.
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In the three years since the iLounge Pavilion launched, the space has quadrupled to 120, 000 square feet, all but taking over an entire hall and pushing the automotive industry into another space.
Square was invented to cut through the complexities of a different network: the credit card payments industry.
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