2. Learn about Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Gulf of Mexico's oil industry by reading and discussing "Another Storm Casualty: Oil Prices". 3. Examine the ways in which local business, tourism, insurance, transportation, rescue, healthcare and construction industries prepare for and contend with natural disaster, by researching those fields and interviewing local representatives.
Australians are constantly told that our economy is '"in transition".' We need to move up the global value chain, build knowledge-based industries, prepare for the Asian Century, and be the "food bowl of the world".
And these efforts should be coupled with resources to help our cities, states and industries prepare for the damages that climate change is already bringing.
Now, as the TV industry prepares to start its annual advertising sales efforts, everyone, it seems, wants to know youth.
To put it another way, as the F.D.A. starts to carry out the new law, and industry prepares for it, there is no certainty.
Microsoft is planning to reveal details about its new Xbox video game console at an event in May, as the games industry prepares for a new generation of hardware that it hopes will lift sales.
I think that 2015 will be the year that the industry prepares itself to stop talking about it as something special and start using it with an imagination and scale that we haven't seen before.
The new relationship comes as the video game industry prepares for its annual trade show, where the three major entrants -- Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft -- are jostling to capture mind-share from both software developers and consumers.
This is taking place as the industry prepares for the spring "upfront presentations," the annual network effort to sell new shows in advance to their most important constituency: advertisers.
FirstGroup's chief executive, Tim O'Toole, warned that any delay in awarding the contract would wreak havoc as the industry prepares to bid for a slew of high-profile routes, including the Great Western and east coast franchises.
There have been a few encouraging signs -- like increased traffic in dealer showrooms, which were still-lifes in the days just after Sept. 11 -- as the industry prepares for its traditional October transition to a new model year.
