Sentence examples for rod industry from inspiring English sources

"Anyone collecting these cars is likely doing it out of nostalgia," said David Lucsko, an assistant professor of history at Auburn University and the author of "The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915-1990" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Last year bestowed the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award for evolution in hot rod industry to George Barris, maker of the Batmobile.

If the industry may be regarded in rebound relative only to its turn in the abyss, Dana DeCoster, publisher of Cruis'news, which covers the classic and hot-rod industry, said it was still progress.

In February, Jim Allchin, a software designer at Microsoft, became a lightning rod for industry criticism when he said in an interview with Bloomberg News that freely distributed software code could stifle innovation and that legislators should be aware of the threat.

Substantial Fees The numerous fees collected by private equity firms have been a frequent lightning rod for the industry.

In the process, Mr. Boneparth has become something of a lightning rod in the industry, according to Todd D. Slater, a retail analyst for Lazard who covers Jones and recommends the stock.

"I understand that this is a lightning rod issue in the industry," an I.B.M. spokesman told me this week.

The new company is a giant lightening rod for complaints from industry players and consumer activists, and from them to politicians.

It is hard to be a lightning rod for criticism within the industry frantically soul-searching for ways to reinvent itself, but progress favors the brave.

The industry producing the rods had recently consolidated, reducing supplies and removing a handful of smaller competitors.

This trade dispute and others that are looming this year over Chinese imports of shrimp, chemicals, tissue paper and semiconductors may become lightning rods for public disquiet and industry lobbying, trade experts say.