During finance's most powerful period, the industry exercised far-reaching influence on governments and regulators.
It is easy to see why the sex industry exercises such fascination.
But the United States, with the strong approval of the American pharmaceutical industry, exercised the veto that every nation possesses and destroyed the deal.
While the researchers disclosed their funding source for the 2011 paper "Do Payday Loans Trap Consumers in a Cycle of Debt?" they also assured readers that the industry "exercised no control over the research or the editorial content of this paper".
His father was the purchasing executive with Vitamaster Industries, an exercise equipment manufacturer in Brooklyn.
The results of an industry-wide exercise by the PRA, which uncovered a £25bn capital shortfall, will be published on Thursday.
The attainment of sovereignty by the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in 1954 ended all Allied control over German industry; the only remaining restrictions on Ruhr industries were exercised by the ECSC and later by the European Economic Community.
Yet no industry could exercise so dark an allure - something accentuated by the profile of smokers, skewed increasingly towards the poor, the young, and, frankly, the darker-skinned and further away.
A senior Spanish banker said Thursday that, while the stress tests should ease some of the uncertainty about the health of the European banking industry, the exercise would most likely benefit the most prudent banks least.
Jawbone expanding even further into the industry of exercise tech just shows that getting healthy is becoming even easier, and anyone who can use a smartphone will have to tools they need to take control of their health.
