Though at first well received in political circles, it was eventually doomed by well-organized opposition from conservatives, the American Medical Association, and the health insurance industry.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Though the model comes from the field of software development, it is also used as a general model to aid in business processes generally, and has been used extensively worldwide in government offices, commerce, industry and software-development organizations.

Though it was severely edited for its Western release, Godzilla became an international icon of Japan and spawned an entire industry of Kaiju films.

Though regarded as a commercial failure in the States, it nevertheless went on to be nominated for and won several industry awards for its brilliant animation quality.

Though the band only achieved limited commercial success, they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and critics.

Though extreme care is practiced in that industry, the potential for disaster suggested by incidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl pose a lingering specter of public mistrust.

Though mechanization transformed most aspects of human industry by the mid-20th century, garment workers have continued to labor under challenging conditions that demand repetitive manual labor.

Though the ice-harvesting industry had grown immensely by the turn of the 20th century, pollution and sewage had begun to creep into natural ice, making it a problem in the metropolitan suburbs.

Though the success of The Jazz Singer was due largely to Jolson, already established as one of America's biggest music stars, and its limited use of synchronized sound hardly qualified it as an innovative sound film ( let alone the " first "), the movie's profits were proof enough to the industry that the technology was worth investing in.

Though few in the industry predicted it, silent film as a viable commercial medium in the United States would soon be little more than a memory.

Though the country's film industry was among the first to produce both sound and talking features, the full changeover to sound proceeded much more slowly than in the West.

Though there is a large Fiat plant ( Termoli ), the industrial sector is dominated by the construction industry with small and medium-sized farms spread widely throughout the region.

Though besieged for a short while by Civil War destruction, Columbia remained a lively center of transport and industry throughout the 19th century, once serving as a terminus of the Pennsylvania Canal.

Though the manufacturing industry maintains a strong presence in Birmingham, other businesses and industries such as banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have risen in stature.

Though the park effectively killed the then-lagging industry in the late 1930s, it spurred the development of one of the largest tourist resorts in the United States of America, as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is now the most visited national park in the country.

Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry.

Though the United States steel making industry has gone through a decline through the last half of the 20th Century, U. S. Steel's Fairfield Works continues to be a major employer, though not in the levels seen around the 1950s.

Though the article, " Saint Peter Don't You Call Me " published in Frontier magazine, was not widely disseminated, it caught considerable attention when Mitford appeared on a local television broadcast with two industry representatives.

Though still mostly agricultural, it has been a center of commerce and industry of Lancaster County, with nickel mining beginning in 1718 and a more profitable limestone mining beginning soon after.

Though the number of farms in the area surrounding the city declined after World War II, the oil and gas industry helped to sustain the local economy until the county's petroleum production dropped significantly during the 1980s.

Though the group had occasionally issued new material on minor labels, their offerings had been largely ignored by the greater commercial music industry and record-buying public.

Though this industry has declined somewhat, it has continued through the large number of clothing manufacturers in the town, and the prominence of dyeing and allied trades.

Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily ; possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.

Though the accused raised many other objections, he did not object on this crucial point at any stage of the proceedings.

Though they saw the old-style chemical rockets lift up from the field beyond B'dikkat's cabin, they did not make plans to hide among the frozen crop of transmuted flesh.

Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent ( could mean presented ) to him just before leaving Melbourne .”

Though his final session in Congress was uneventful, he did reintroduce seven resolutions, which failed, providing for rotation of federal appointees.

Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

Though he also continued the tradition of Aristotle-and Augustine-focused thought in the Franciscan school, he did so through an Anselm-directed lens.

Though Anthony himself did not organize or create a monastery, a community grew around him based on his example of living an ascetic and isolated life.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

Though she did not categorically confirm that she was approached to do the reboot, Morris is not opposed to the idea, provided that production would not interfere with her Glee duties.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

Though Gauss had up to that point been financially supported by his stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve support.

Though he did take in a few students, Gauss was known to dislike teaching.

Though they wanted a more democratic society, their proposed franchise did not extend to women or to the lowest orders of society.

Though his work was broad and rigorous, it did not bring Diderot riches.

Though this method of serving beer did not take hold in the U. K. until the late 1950s, it did become the favoured method in the rest of Europe, where it is known by such terms as en pression.

Though the punishment was not actually carried out, the incident clearly indicates that European monarchs at the time did not consider foreign ambassadors to be completely immune from punishment.

Though a contest was planned for 2000 the interest in the N64 was already fading and so did the event.

Though educational reform occurred on a local level at various points throughout history, the modern notion of education reform is tied with the spread of Compulsory education-education reforms did not become widespread until after organized schooling was sufficiently systematized to be ' reformed.

Though women did not gain the right to vote as a result of the Revolution, they still greatly expanded their political participation and involvement in governing.

Though the scene did not initially generate the same enthusiasm as An American in Paris, it subsequently overtook the earlier film to occupy its current pre-eminent place among critics and filmgoers alike.