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

Since taking office, the Lee Jae Myung administration has worked closely with the U.S. to strengthen and modernize our alliance, expanding cooperation across security, economic resilience, advanced technologies and strategic industries.

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 technology has been touted for advancing breakthroughs across industries, from drug discovery to financial applications.

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