And our less tangible industries — finance and investment banking, say — have disgraced themselves in our eyes, and so we turn to a purportedly more honorable line of work".
Would you argue that mental inhibitors are at work, or are there more tangible, industry-related challenges?
Nearly two-thirds of the world's GDP now comes from the intangible service industry -- as opposed to tangible industries like manufacturing or agriculture -- where competitive advantage isn't about who's the biggest, but who's the smartest.
What if you want to learn a tangible music industry skill like DJing?
In testimony before Congress last month, D.H. Daigle, director of Americas refining for the ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Company, urged that enforcement of the rules be suspended "to prevent enforcement policies from interfering without tangible benefit to industry's ability to meet our energy and fuel supply needs".
This trade agreement should be viewed, in other words, either as a catalyst that may enhance the speed of regulatory change, or a tangible manifestation of industry lobbying principles that, till now, may have been more implicit.
"The airlines are more tangible than other industries because a lot of people travel for business and for holidays, and there's a lot of glamor," said Martin Borghetto of Morgan Stanley.
The Johnniac is part of a vast collection of computer and electronic equipment assembled over the last two decades by a dedicated cadre of computer pioneers who are determined to prevent the industry's tangible roots from slipping away.
At present there is a mounting public awareness that a lack of female directors working in the film and television industry is tangible.
Enviromate, through an online marketplace, corporate internal platform and surplus donation element, offers the industry a tangible solution to re-use leftover material, increasing the product lifecycle, reducing landfill and decreasing the burden on the planet's natural resources.
