industries

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Employment rose across a number of industries in May, led by about a 27,000 rise in construction work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

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

Still, early data collected by Statistics Canada has shown industry-level GDP rose a relatively solid 0.4% in April from the month before, driven by natural-resources industries.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

They have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries; and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson