The end product of this effort is what the industry terms as-built drawings, or more simply, “ as built .” The requirement for providing them is a norm in construction contracts.

A report produced in September 2009 by the Government Accountability Office stated that the rate at which retirees were rewarded disability claims was above the norm for the industry in general and indicated " troubling " practices that may indicate fraud, such as the use of a very small group of physicians in making the diagnosis.

But before he was permanently retired, Oswald made a final cameo appearance in The Woody Woodpecker Polka ( 1951 ), also in three-strip Technicolor, which by then had become the norm in the cartoon industry.

As the cotton industry declined, more varied employment became the norm.

:"... thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the business is about to get: bigger ... Mergers, takeovers and acquisitions are becoming the norm in the television: industry.

In an industry plagued with low physical album sales and digital music becoming more and more the norm in society, record labels have been trying various strategies to adjust to the new landscape.

When the companies were first merged the EEC order books were full, while ICT ( who had twice as many employees ) were struggling, perhaps because it was already obvious that the 1900 series was incompatible with the rest of the industry, with an architecture based on a 24 bit word and 6 bit character rather than the 8 bit byte that was becoming the industry norm.

Craft unionism has not, however, disappeared: it is still the norm in the airline industry, survives despite much upheaval in the construction industry, and even appears, in very muted form, in some mass production industries, such as automobile manufacturing, where skilled trades employees have pressed their own agendas within the union.

This accelerated construction schedule, which compressed time by overlapping processes, allowed Humana to develop hospital projects faster than the industry norm.

Takahashi believed that such a writing style was unique even within the game industry at the time, but has since become the norm.

* continuing to specify manual synchromesh gearboxes on its Leyland Leopards until 1979, by which time automatic gearboxes were the norm across most of the UK bus industry.

The industry norm is that this process is done at 10pm UK time.

This meant that when terms like EIS and MIS were first coined, the industry norm was " slideshows ", i. e. pre-programmed transitions between views, whereas Holos provided data-driven drill-down, i. e. no pre-programmed views or links.

Starting with Neal Adams ' work in Green Lantern / Green Arrow a new sophisticated realism became the norm in the industry.

However in February 2011, Sony regains full distribution rights to MGM Home Entertainment library under a deal that pays SPHE 8 % in distribution fees ( industry norm is 10 %).

Even if it failed to achieve music industry fame and fortune, it achieved much more than a trendy social norm and a set of mores and becomes the torch carried further from just merely being " born to be wild ".

Despite his short time as a sire, of Domino's twenty foals eight were stakes race winners, an incredible 42 % rate versus the industry norm of just 3 %.

From 1866, he was also involved in the pearling industry at Nickol Bay where ' naked diving ' ( i. e. without any aids including goggles ) became the norm.

Unusually, the series is neither inked nor colored, but rather sourced directly from pencil drawing, something which Warren has not done for a complete series before and is not the norm in the American comic book industry.

However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

The existence of a public school vocational training program in trade and industry provides a base from which such needs can be filled.

Additional courses can readily be added and special cooperative programs worked out with any new industry if the basic facilities, staff and program are in being.

Thus, besides the training provided to youth in school, the existence of the school program can have supplementary benefits to industry which make it an asset to industrial development efforts.

Where this approach becomes critical, the industry can be expected to put much emphasis on this as evidence of its sincerity in `` resisting '' the wage pressures of a powerful union, requesting tariff relief after it has `` reluctantly '' acceded to the union pressure.

Similarly, higher levels of GNP do not, in themselves, provide grounds for raising prices, but they do relax some of the pressure on the industry so that it can raise prices higher for a given wage increase.

Thus, for non-negative changes in the basic wage rate, the industry becomes the active wage-setter, since any increase in the basic wage rate can occur only by reason of industry acquiescence.

Industry's main criticism of the Navy's antisubmarine effort is that it cannot determine where any one company or industry can apply its skills and know-how.

It can exist in various allotropes, although only the gray form has important use in industry.

From here, it can be argued that, to the extent amateurs threaten the professional industry by providing free services, the professional industry has an interest in making its counterpart amateur activity shameful.

Alkenes serve as a feedstock for the petrochemical industry because they can participate in a wide variety of reactions.

The biotechnology industry has also been instrumental in developing molecular diagnostic devices that can be used to define the target patient population for a given biopharmaceutical.

The diamond industry can be broadly separated into two basically distinct categories: one dealing with gem-grade diamonds and another for industrial-grade diamonds.

Software can be patented in some but not all countries ; however, software patents can be controversial in the software industry with many people holding different views about it.

Software can be quite a profitable industry: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software products.

The boom in the Cayman Islands ' international finance industry can also be at least partly attributed to the British overseas territory having no direct taxation.

Rail freight transport has also suffered at the hands of the trucking industry and will continue to do so due to the immense leverage the truck driver's union can bring to bear if they were to feel threatened.

Much of the recent economic history of Cape Breton Island can be tied to the coal industry.

Having a successful career such as being a professional athlete or an entertainment industry based professionals are careers that many average people can identify with but can only dream about pursuing.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In preparing the state guide plan, particular attention will be given means of strengthening the economy of the state through the development of industry and recreation.

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

A prospective industry also may be interested in the long-run advantages of training programs in the area to supply future skilled workers and provide supplementary extension courses for its employees.

The rate of plant and equipment spending by business and industry now seems to be topping out and facing some decline.

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

In such circumstances, it may well be to the advantage of the industry to allow an increase in the basic wage rate.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

In this model, then, the industry is presumed to realize that they could successfully resist a change in the basic wage rate, but since such a change is the only effective means to raising prices they may, in circumstances to be spelled out in Part 2, below, find it to their advantage to allow the wage rise.

The presumption in the literature would appear to be that the basic wage rate would be unchanged in this case, on the grounds that it is `` clearly '' not in the interest of the industry to raise wages gratuitously.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

To light industry, the economies of being on one floor are much slighter, but efficiency engineers usually believe in them, and manufacturers looking for ways to cut costs cannot be prevented from turning to efficiency engineers.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

The executive paid tribute to research and development and technology for their great contributions in the past, but he also cautioned industry that they tend to be great equalizers because they move at a fairly even pace within an industry and fail to give it the short-term advantage which it often needs.

In May 2010, Rite Publishing secured a license from Diceless by Design to use the rules system in the creation of a new product to be written by industry and system veteran Jason Durall.