Its chief spokeswoman: Ms. Varney, who went through the Washington revolving door and emerged as a champion of industry.
It managed partly by becoming a champion of industry standards and open-source software.Microsoft is treading a similar path.
Its outsize economic importance has prompted Canada's Conservative government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to champion the industry.
Big Brown was considered such a stone-cold lock to become the 12th Triple Crown champion that industry executives had already printed invitations for a celebration of the colt Monday at Tavern on the Green.
The gains are then used to direct subsidised capital to favoured state-run firms and national champions in industry.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has championed the industry, noting that the number of yogurt plants in New York has more than doubled since 2000.
The proposal to charge for toilets caused a storm last week among consumer champions and industry analysts while Ryanair public relations executives even tried to play down the suggestion.
Still, the chancellor's championing of industry (Britain must "make things again", he keeps saying) is odd for a free-market Conservative, and a measure of how much the country has changed since the financial crash.
The government is also pursuing free-trade agreements with as many countries as possible.At the same time, however, it refuses to abandon the idea that it is the job of the government to champion particular industries.
Now the fight is on to decide in which countries and for which diseases poor people should be allowed cheap medicines - the US government, which champions the industry, wants to rule out such illnesses as asthma, diabetes and cancer and restrict the concession to the very poorest nations.
