But the industry has been suffering something of an identity crisis in recent years.
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Investors gained insight into how the industry has been skimming money from their accounts.
Recently, however, most of the industry has been seeing more cash going out than coming in.
Yet once again the reaction of the industry has been to demand tighter controls.
Yet privately, the police complain that the industry has been slow to change its ways.
But since the collapse of Equitable Life three years ago, the industry has been through wrenching changes.
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Since the early 1990s, the industry has been a rare success story in Japan's bleak financial-services market.
Despite the explosion in legitimate music services, the industry has been criticised for reacting slowly to new technologies.
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The industry has been engineering ways to management hydrate formation for years, but under easier operating conditions than this.
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The industry has been slow to pick up GPU technology despite its advantages.
The industry has been concerned about finding a mayoral candidate as friendly to the tech sector as Mr. Bloomberg.
And the industry has been cleared of its alleged ties to organised crime.
The industry has been exposed, the process of privatisation has been exposed.
While the industry has been successful in delaying implementation, it appears that they will finally become effective third quarter 2012.
Indeed, the industry has been able to extract higher revenues and reduce its costs because it showed distress, not success.
The industry has been under intense scrutiny and has faced a slowdown in reservations since January, when rival Carnival Corp.
The industry has been abuzz all week over the back-door incentives used to induce the studios in question to abandon Blu-ray.
And yet even he believes that the majors cut research too much and the industry has been slow to adopt new technology.
However, the industry has been slow to take advantage of this opportunity.
Although the industry has been fractured in the United States, Brandt said he anticipates a long road ahead for the public health community.
Even success today does not generate capital supply as the industry has been wrongly labeled and investors are not shown the correct evolutionary picture.
Kelleher president and CEO of Better Markets, a non-profit organization that focuses on financial markets, says the industry has been dealt a crushing defeat.
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As annuities have evolved over the past decade to include inflation-riders, death benefits and more, the industry has been rebranding them as lifetime income products.
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This year, however, even the industry has been asking for action.
But the industry has been widely criticised for the low pay and limited rights given to workers, and for the often dangerous working conditions in factories.
But the industry has been looking for ways to better integrate payment systems, and other startups like Boku and Social Gold, have also been working on this.
"The industry has been looking forward to the publication of this standard for some time, " noted Desi Rhoden, Chairman JC-42 Memory Committee and Executive VP Montage Technology.
The industry has been on the back foot in the face of these trends with sales - excluding door-to-door transactions - at their lowest level in a decade.
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Finally, the scope of the investigation should include looking far into the past, given that the industry has been cleaning up its act in anticipation of SEC action.
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Advertising industry has been both a catalyst and beneficiary of these desires as the industry has been on a continuous growth trajectory with only temporary slowdowns at times.
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