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Oyster Industry Gets Back to Business (Los Angeles Times) - The hurricane-devastated oyster industry celebrated a victory when two boats arrived at the Old Hopedale Seafood Plant and unloaded hundreds of sacks of oysters.

Sununu: Don’t penalize oil industry with tax (Portsmouth Herald) - "In its effort to address high gas prices, Congress must avoid legislative proposals that have been proven in the past to be ineffective. A windfall profit tax for the oil industry is one such item.

Moutamarat, PricewaterhouseCoopers to survey Arab Industry Leaders (AME Info) - Moutamarat, a joint venture between Dubai Holding and the Saudi Research and Publishing Company (SRPC), unveiled today its partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to deliver the first Arab Industry Leaders (AIL) Survey in the fields of financial services, healthcare and travel & tourism.

Film industry honors Taylor, Cruise (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Anthony Hopkins mocked Tom Cruise's boyish enthusiasm, and admitted that he had no idea what their collaboration, "Mission: Impossible 2," was about, as Britain's film industry honored the American actor, along with Elizabeth Taylor in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

Putting a squeeze on citrus industry (The Indianapolis Star) - LAKELAND, Fla. -- When Jason Johnson graduates from college next month with a degree in citrus production, chances are he will look for jobs in landscaping rather than the state's $9 billion citrus industry. It makes better economic sense.

Mining Industry Takes Lead on Rules (RedNova) - By Travis Tritten, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Nov. 11--A team of mine operators and a Horry County councilman want three more weeks to craft mining industry rules but must persuade the rest of council to put off a final vote Tuesday on new laws.

IT industry asked to develop sub Rs 10K laptops (The Hindu) - NEW DELHI: The National Informatics Centre, which provides e-Governance support to the central government, on Saturday asked the IT industry to develop low-cost laptops, saying it can help students and research scholars work better.

Dubai Festival City director to address key German retail industry meet (AME Info) - The case for more European brands to enter the burgeoning Middle East retail market is to be made at Germany's leading industry forum, Stores 2005, which runs from the 24-25th November in Frankfurt.

Vt. maple syrup industry suppliers to relocate (The Burlington Free Press) - Two centenarian Vermont maple industry suppliers are pulling up roots and consolidating. Leader Evaporator Co. of St. Albans and G.H. Grimm Co. of Rutland are headed for Swanton.

TV’s Brown speaks of changing ag industry, mad cow disease (Montana Standard) - DEER LODGE — Agriculture is a changing industry, and is needed to feed the world, keynote speaker Taylor Brown of the Northern Ag Network said at the recent Powell County chamber banquet in Deer Lodge.