After more than half a century of essential serenity and constantly increasing, though hardly excessive, profits, the American publishing industry encountered some rather harsh realities in 2012.
The bills in the House and Senate, backed by the entertainment industry, encountered a surprising defeat after a vast alliance of chip makers, Internet service providers, rival Web companies and digital rights groups cast them as a means of censoring the Web.
But supporters say the rules are essential for Hollywood and for other television and movie producers to avoid what the recording industry encountered when services like Napster enabled the easy and free exchange of digital music.
Given the difficulty of explaining these to the non-specialist, unfamiliar with arcane terms like rehypothecation or balance sheet interconnections, the dangers of the present system are perhaps best understood by analogy with problems the aviation industry encountered when it made the transition to jet aircraft.
But shortly after the Times Mirror acquisition, the media industry encountered one of its worst advertising recessions.
Over the next century, whenever the coal industry encountered an image or environmental problem -- from workplace safety and black lung, to strip-mining, processing, and the burning of coal and the myriad problems of sulfur, mercury and CO2 emissions -- it has simply trotted out this marketing slogan.
Privatization of Russia's state-owned industries encountered some difficulties in early 1995, but in April the government published a list of some 7,000 companies in which it planned to sell its remaining shares.
Secondly, from an industrial perspective, it contributed greatly to positive impact on global fur industry, which encounter stagnation, by long-term marketing and PR of KF, Danish industrial activation.
The credit agency, Moody's Investors Service, which warned banks in February that a downgrade was possible, cut the credit scores of banks to new lows to reflect new risks that the industry has encountered since the financial crisis.
The volatility in trading activity followed the decision late Thursday by the credit agency Moody's Investors Service to cut the credit scores of major banks to new lows, reflecting new risks the industry has encountered since the financial crisis began.
