Representatives of the athletic leagues and the bat industry, capping a week of intense lobbying within the Council, countered that controlled tests showed that the metal bats now in use had exit velocities near or identical to wood bats.
After the last week brought another round of woeful quarterly results from the industry, capped by news on Tuesday of multibillion-dollar losses at the Wachovia Corporation and Washington Mutual, that question is nagging banking executives and their investors.
One of the few gainers in the industry was Cap Gemini, the largest I.T. services firm in Europe.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats said Thursday that they intended to push the Obama administration to back away from its deal with the drug industry to cap its share of the costs in a health care overhaul.
Another issue is whether government will offer the industry a cap on liability in case of accidents.Last year, the world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito, made a plea to Congress that as a potential investor in suborbital craft he was not looking to government for funding, technology, tax credits or loan guarantees.
"A set of legal exemptions first introduced in the 1980s steadily eroded the primacy of the industry level, capped by a 2004 law on social dialogue which reinforced the autonomy of firm-level negotiators in almost every domain save wages".(Culpepper 2006 37).
Well established in the utilities industry, price cap regulation would set a maximum price that cigarette companies can charge for their product.
Last month, following a two-year investigation into the sector, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped short of imposing an industry-wide cap on overdraft fees.
The law in question, known as A.B. 32, mandates slashing carbon and other greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, by forcing power companies and industries to cap their emissions and by slashing carbon in gasoline.
While there is an industry-wide cap on emissions – known as a baseline – it has been set very high with no policy in place to make it come down over time.
