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

Some lenders are applying more conservative underwriting criteria to entire industries because of the threat that AI poses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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

The funds will be made available through the Defense Production Act, which was enacted in 1950 and gives the US president emergency power over domestic industries.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Side-scan sonar has been widely used to detect obstructions on the ocean floor that might be hazardous to shipping or to seabed installations by the gas and oil industries.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler