industries

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To finance the initiative, he invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that grants the president broad authority to support industries considered vital to national security.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

On the demand side, AI’s memory-chip needs are driving prices so high that other industries are beginning to reduce their consumption.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Really, the constraint on Chinese growth is chronic malinvestment of the country’s savings, which are diverted toward export-manufacturing industries and low-productivity state-owned enterprises rather than toward investment in domestic services and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

A truly improving labor market would see hiring broaden out to other industries.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

But these were phenomena of the pre-industrial era, before the flowering of the industries whose products were to pervade the environment of almost every living thing.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson