ECONOMISTS tend to think that an industry divided between hundreds of players, each with a tiny market share, should be fiercely competitive, with prices cut to the bone.
The Scottish post-punkers were at their most prominent in the mid-eighties, and although the band never achieved widespread commercial success they had a deep impact on the music industry, dividing opinions and courting controversy.
After 1937, however, with Detective Comics, they came into their own as original publications, and, like the pulps, they grew into a major industry, dividing up into much the same types.
It also, speaking of plunder, spelled out what might be called a pirate code of conduct: Here they sate down to spend the Fruits of their dishonest Industry, dividing the Spoil and Plunder of Nations among themselves, without the least Remorse or Compunction, satisfying their Conscience with this Salvo, that other People would have done as much, had they had the like Opportunities.
But industry divided between those who have struck deals and those who have not, and those who are still being investigated clearly hoping the rules will be revised, E.P.A. officials said they did not expect much progress until the review is completed.
Thirty-three workers from a petrochemical industry (divided into two groups: 19 hypertensive and 14 normotensive), located in the greater Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, participated.
Our imputed capital measure equals the five-year average capital stock in the firm's industry, divided by the number of firms in each industry represented by the WES.
This data was not available and I therefore used a common proxy for concentration that is based on the number of establishments in an industry divided by its output.
It is "a push by the billionaire casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson to outlaw online gambling [and] has ignited a bitter civil war in the gambling industry, dividing one of Washington's most powerful interest groups and posing a major test of the Republican donor's political clout".
A competitive testing industry divides a fixed pool of tested human genomes.
Passages of glorious imagination are invariably matched by stock characters and banal story choices, as each new movie becomes another manifestation of the movie-industry divide between art and the bottom line.
