In some industries, unmanaged public cloud services also raise the specter of serious regulatory violations.
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Some industries are beginning to define industry-specific water stewardship principles and water accounting standards.
Bringing manufacturing production back to the U.S. generally holds greater advantage for some industries than others.
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Some industries are already planning for tax hikes put into place earlier this year.
He said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.
In some industries, reducing working hours in exchange for flexibility may be a spur to productivity.
Some industries, such as pharmaceuticals, have much to fear from a looser approach to patents.
As a result some industries, especially labour-intensive ones such as retailing, stay fragmented and inefficient.
Even if general inflation revives or remains positive, prices are falling in some industries.
In some industries, the return on these political investments dwarf other potential investments in the core business.
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Some industries are just not well suited to provide time and space for nursing mothers, Bouchard says.
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However, some industries are not facing as much depression in sales compared to high-end consumer discretionary outlets.
Obviously, some industries generate more data than others like Telco, Retail, Oil and Gas and Utilities, for instance.
In some industries, like the consumer-reliant retail sector, the default risk is directly tied to reduced consumer spending.
In some industries, lengthy Pilot tests are required before an enterprise customer will sign a definitive purchase order.
Barry Chiswick of the University of Illinois at Chicago says high-tech foreign workers can depress wages in some industries.
Some industries pay little or no tax while some are taxed quite heavily.
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The FPI study found that immigrants concentrate in some industries, such as taxi services, dry cleaners and gas stations.
Some industries, companies, states, cities and careers will blast out of this recession.
Although it's at a slower rate, boomers are still leaving the job market, in some industries more than others.
Some industries and regions in the west would suffer disproportionately from eastern competition.
If those odds don't scare you off, consider too that some industries may be inherently tougher to crack than others.
Some industries will show higher pay increases than others, and some will be subject to unique competitive forces for talent.
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With huge oversupply in some industries, and big rises in raw-materials costs, many manufacturers are having to endure wafer-thin margins.
Their return on equity averages 19.5%, and in some industries, such as paper products, it is as high as 45-50%.
Although the limit applied to local and foreign banks, the July rules followed complaints by lawmakers about foreign ownership in some industries.
Some industries will have an easier time coping with that than others.
There is no shortage of other discouragements: high inflation, bureaucracy, disputes over land ownership, and limits on foreign ownership in some industries.
In some industries, notably car production, a rebound is plainly under way.
In some industries, its margin would be more impressive than in others.
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