At Cornell, I explored both academic and private industry career tracks.
The Center for Responsive Politics tracks industry spending on lobbying on its OpenSecrets.org website.
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The Digital Entertainment Group is an entertainment industry trade group that tracks home entertainment sales.
"I'd wait until the Friday after Thanksgiving, " says Britt Beemer, president of America's Research Group, which tracks retail industry trends.
By next year MasterCard will have more credit cards issued in the U.S. than Visa, according to the Nilson Report, which tracks the industry.
Richard Wells, who tracks the industry, has two explanations for that.
The average advertised interest rate for credit cards in the U.S. has risen to 13.7% from 11.64% in May 2009, before the legislation was passed, according to Bill Hardekopf, chief executive of LowCards.com, a Web site that tracks the industry.
Tourists to the U.S. and other cardholders who carry such plastic will still be able to withdraw cash from U.S. ATMs. Consumers are unlikely to see higher costs in the near future, but ATM owners may choose to remove their machines from fraud-prone areas such as tourist destinations and border towns, said Sam Ditzion, chief executive of Tremont Capital Group, a Boston-based firm that tracks the industry.
Until then, law school prestige will remain a big factor, says Bruce MacEwen, a law firm consultant and blogger who tracks the legal industry.
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The first phase of Google's music service is expected to be a Web store where users can buy and download tracks, music industry insiders said.
In the meantime, Wal-Mart's new and improved stores draw roughly 10% more cash per customer than its other stores do, according to data from America's Research Group, which tracks the retail industry.
With a customer-focused business model that effectively uses the nation's airports as distribution points, net margins of 20% are feasible, estimates Horacio Zambrano, a Wedbush Morgan analyst who tracks the security industry.
And they're not the only ones scoring big bucks to grab laughs on the road: Six of the 100 top-grossing tours at midyear belonged to comedians, according to Pollstar, a trade magazine that tracks the concert industry.
But between 2001 and 2011, U.S. annual consumption of daily-newspaper newsprint plunged an estimated 61% to 3.6 million tons and annual consumption of paper used for printing, note pads and more fell roughly 38%, according to Vertical Research Partners, which tracks the paper industry.
Since 2005, the number of graduates defaulting on their federal student loans has jumped 38%, according to Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of FinAid, which tracks the student loan industry.
The 31-year-old said the practice of performers singing along with prerecorded tracks is common in her industry.
After all, DXJ tracks a fairly obscure (by industry benchmarking standards) WisdomTree index that is rarely, if ever, used by institutions as a benchmark.
Today, MyFDB is a site that tracks the credits of everyone working in the fashion industry.
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But in the same period, 239 million tracks were legally downloaded and, given that the industry used to reckon the ratio of illegal to legal downloads was 10:1, that looks like progress.
Banco Macro and Bancolombia hail from the Banks-Foreign industry group, ranked No. 2 among the 197 groups IBD tracks.
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According to research firm StarMine, which tracks analyst performance, over the past 36 months, Groh has bested an industry return of 89% (cumulative) by 50%.
In all, an exemplary effort by Mr. Andreas, one with far more insight than that offered by most stock analysts and the industry gurus who were insanely optimistic over the last year, and are now busily covering their tracks while loudly bewailing the present.
Wohlers Associates, a consulting firm that tracks additive manufacturing, provided me with a media copy of their 2012 State of the Industry report this past spring, will run its own conference alongside EuroMold, focused on metal additive manufacturing, with experts from around the world.
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In the long run, sales of digital-music tracks purchased over the internet and revenues from mobile-phone ringtunes, may bring growth back to the industry.
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