From 2000 to 2008, nuclear energy dropped from 16.7% to 13.5% of global energy production, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009.
It would be a twisted case of irony to allow a limited number of daily fantasy sports businesses to secure huge market share just because they were the only ones willing to enter an industry with uncertain legal status.
Cash flow margins for well run businesses can routinely exceed 50% confirming the monopoly status of the industry.
In our view, the conditions are ripe for a shake-up of a complacent, century-old industry heavily invested in the status quo of internal combustion.
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Some in the financial industry were eager to protect a status quo that basically allowed them to play by their own rules.
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Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
Joseph Bankman, a tax law professor at Stanford University, thinks lobbying by the computer industry will block changes to the status quo, but he's got other ideas for the IRS to make filing taxes easier.
But Avvo was determined to disrupt the status quo in the legal industry and make the law more accessible to ordinary consumers.
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If only CES would intervene on behalf of women, banning the presence of Booth Babes and helping to elevate the status of women within the industry.
In other words, the logic seems to be that absent the asymmetries in spending between environmentalists and industry groups with a stake in the status quo, the failure to adopt policies like cap and trade could be interpreted as inherent weaknesses in the policies themselves.
Disruptive in the healthcare industry can also boil down to changing the status quo.
Samsung expects to keep its frontrunner status in the global memory semiconductor industry with competitive products and differentiated cost structure.
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Little of that fits into what the luxury industry has typically offered with its peddling of status, image, and fine materials.
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The bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for America.
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The entertainment industry was perfectly happy with the pre-Netflix status quo.
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Tsujihara said his relative status as an outsider helped him challenge the status quo at a time when the industry began suffering from the collapse of DVD sales.
But with Congressional Republicans attempting to bar the military from buying biofuels that cost more than petroleum, the industry has been forced to fight to preserve the status quo rather than focus on the future.
Nonetheless, the pills' status as foods is not something the supplements industry is altogether happy about.
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Industry officials say a major change in REITs' tax status would send shock waves through the real-estate world.
In the music industry, a stadium concert is the ultimate rock-star status symbol: Few acts can sell enough tickets to fill one, let alone a multitude of such venues year after year.
The framers of the 1976 Copyright Act took counsel from publishers, the recording industry, broadcasters and others with a vested interest in preserving the status quo.
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And the Confederation of British Industry lobby group is pressing for Britain to keep its place and status within the European Union, to push for freer trade.
What do status updates have to do with scaling up in the software industry?
Throughout the investigation, the question asked by both consumers groups and those who care about preserving competition and limited regulation of the tech industry was what remedy could possibly benefit innovation and consumers more than the status quo.
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In the class we have advisors who are primarily alums in industry who work with each of our teams, and they get access to status report too via both the web and email.
He said the industry wants the federal government to be directly responsible for conducting criminal and immigration status checks on airport screeners -- the way it is done in Europe and other parts of the world.
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That's a model that could shake up the entire wireless industry--and possibly pose a threat to carriers who would rather maintain the status quo.
Industry participants at the Senate hearing on June 21 appeared to offer undying support for the status quo.
British industry lost its focus on developing the latest technology, thus solidifying the country's status as a declining world power.
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