A coalition of virtually everyone who lives or works around the bay sport and commercial fishermen, environmental groups, the tourism industry, native tribes and other residents—has fought the mine for over a decade, and now is gearing up for another round of opposition for fear an opened mine could pollute the Bay and threaten the industry.
Rather than having a mission of servicing a legacy business they operate as industry natives in their given sectors.
But immigrants tend to work in different industries than native workers, and have different skills, and so they often end up complementing native workers, rather than competing with them.
This generally happens in those industries that native entrepreneurs do not consider so profitable.
For Zabel, by contrast, the hedge-fund industry was native ground: his father was a founder of Schulte, Roth & Zabel, an immensely successful law firm that served hedge-fund clients.
The Interior Department should work with stakeholders-including industry, government, Native organizations, scientists, and conservation groups -- to ensure that strong safety and spill-response standards apply to all companies that plan to drill in the Arctic Ocean.
It's devastating news for an already shrinking coal industry, but natives of the southern mountains have learned to judge what they hear simply by the way someone speaks the word.
There were few native industries.
Insurance, political campaigns and debt will soon be our only native industries.
The prime minister at the time, Zhu Rongji (supported by President Jiang Zemin), pushed aggressively for WTO accession despite strong reservations within powerful bureaucracies that feared native industries would be overwhelmed by foreign competition.
