Since then, Dr. Abramson has become something of an activist against the lunches and gifts that the pharmaceutical industry dispenses to doctors.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that, along with that advice, the industry dispenses a little witchcraft as well.Management consultancy, for all the down sizing it prescribes for its clients, has been expanding at a prodigious rate.
With its emphasis on marketability, the culture industry dispenses entirely with the "purposelessness" that was central to art's autonomy.
The group, which opened its first property in Amsterdam in 2008, set out to challenge the hotel industry by dispensing with traditional features – such as check-in desks, overpriced mini bars and an onsite restaurant – offering instead small, but hi-tech rooms and large, stylish communal areas at an affordable price.
But as it nears $5, it's all the more incumbent on us to keep the pressure on the industry to dispense accurately".
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, updated every five years by a joint advisory committee of the Agriculture Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, are used by the federal government to plan food programs and by private industry to dispense nutrition information.
Anyone looking through publishers' catalogs might be convinced that the book industry has dispensed with December, as many companies go straight from the blockbusters of November to the take-a-chance books of January.
Recognising that marketing was as important as technology when consumers were involved, the industry group dispensed with the usual string of incomprehensible letters and numbers and named the technology after Harald Blatand (Bluetooth), a tenth-century Danish king who conquered much of Scandinavia.As a communications technology, Bluetooth is not that revolutionary.
The subjects of the probe are some research firms that make it their business to know what's going on in, say, Shenzhen or Taiwan, where friends and industry experts dispense information that may or may not be confidential about such things as big new orders, equipment changes, and meetings with other companies.
Those losses underscore the burdens on Gazprom to support companies not to make profits, but to sustain struggling industries, to dispense patronage and to wield political influence.
