Europe "is like someone who buys a car but has no money for petrol," Diego Canga Fano, a senior European Commission official in the department responsible for industry, said at a space conference in Brussels last week, referring to uncertainty over money for the Copernicus project.
In this role, he was responsible for industry and solutions, value engineering, sales operations, and the GCO University program (formerly SAP® Sales University), as well as audit and private equity business development, ensuring operational excellence through service efficiency and effectiveness.
That evoked a response from many executives here that the entertainment industry's unwillingness to explore new business models was primarily responsible for the industry's lack of growth.
Abbott also called on the mining industry to "acknowledge and demonstrate their gratitude" to his retiring former minister Ian Macfarlane, who was responsible for the industry portfolio when the mining tax was dumped.
The oversight board, for instance, is responsible for supervising industry peer reviews that have yielded questionable findings.
Mr. Corwin said environmental requirements were "mainly responsible for the industry's reduction in size over the years".
Yet European subsidies for solar power, which are largely responsible for the industry's emergence, hardly fell.
As of Wednesday, Fifa will no longer be responsible for an industry worth billions, the governing body deregulating a business that, it claims, is rife with underhand and unlicensed transactions across the world.
By 2012, doTerra had pulled even with Young Living in terms of total revenue and number of distributors; a market-research group called doTerra "singularly responsible" for the industry's rapid expansion.
And it's important to remember that correcting the statements of medical journals or public health agencies falls outside the F.D.A.'s jurisdiction — when it comes to drugs, the F.D.A. is responsible for regulating industry, not other government agencies.
In the Politburo he continued to be responsible for the industry of the GDR.
