More money has been lost, percentage-wise, on industry funds than any other category.
This contrasts sharply with system design in the batch-wise processing industry, where flexibility has always had a high priority.
The auto show season serves this year to remind us that, product-wise, the industry is still digging itself out of a hole.
Before subjecting the airlines and customers to new costs, it would be wise to try industry discussions.
They live cheaply and crack wise about the industry, seemingly cynical and smart enough not to be fooled by it.
The term "cable envy" was either invented or popularized by the longtime program-planning executive and outspoken industry wise man, Preston Beckman of the Fox network, who did not like the condition.
"I believe you can do mountaintop removal appropriately," said Mr. Wise of an industry that has maintained its political clout by doubling the state's coal output in the past 20 years even as the job base shrank.
Fabric-wise, the fashion industry knows it can always look to Scotland for quality and authenticity - we're famous for producing tweed and cashmere, while tartan is never off the international catwalks for more than two seasons.
With the rising popularity of online music, much of it available free, technology-wise teenagers, the industry's most voracious buyers, can easily use CD-burning technology to make bootleg copies and sell them at school for as little as $1. Companies are showing signs of cracking.
