To minimize future chaos and literally keep the trains running, Kaspersky and his company are expanding their ambitions beyond mere antivirus software to build their own, extra-secure operating system just for large-scale industry.

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Ocwen executives have said they believe the industry will ultimately boil down to a handful of large-scale players, since the bigger a company gets in the industry, the more its margins improve.

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Daniel Schultz, the FDA's chief device regulator, says new medical devices don't need the large-scale exhaustive trials of the drug industry because it is easier to predict the behavior of a machine than it is to track the chemical interactions of a new drug in the body.

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The conventional wisdom is that a large-scale shift from manufacturing jobs to service industry jobs is inevitable.

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All this led to the beer business consolidating into a large-scale national, and more recently, international industry.

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Magna opens at a time when many in the tourist industry are questioning whether such large-scale projects have enough visitors to go round.

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But if there is a strong large-scale push in general transportation, it might make the power industry fearful of having to compete against motorists for natural-gas supplies and thus more cautious about making a major commitment themselves.

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Much of the US house building industry, however, is now dominated by large-scale builders, such as Toll Brothers or DR Horton, which are listed companies.

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Researchers have created a partnership with the juice-making industry in Brazil and have launched the Orange Peel Exploitation Company to demonstrate the technology on a large scale.

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