industries

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The fourth straight slow year for the housing market will challenge industries that rely on home sales, including real-estate brokerages, mortgage lenders, home builders and furniture manufacturers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

It has raised concerns about the GCC's record of restricting press freedom, using the death penalty, and being high producers of greenhouse gas emissions because of their six countries' oil industries.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

And the service industries now dominating the U.S. economy treated workers as interchangeable parts.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

He pointed to his and wife Kat Taylor’s work on ballot measures that took on the tobacco and oil industries, protected environmental laws and taxed out-of-state corporations to fund schools.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

“Because women were seen as being valuable to war efforts, and they kept things going with the industries back home.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali