1.   Another industry witness for the government is Steve McGeady, an Intel vice president.

2.   As an economist, he has offered arguments on many issues in the case, unlike industry witnesses whose testimony focused more narrowly on their areas of expertise.

3.   He put skeptical questions to a panel of industry witnesses who, often as not, found themselves at odds with each other.

4.   In addition to industry witnesses, both sides will call economic and technical experts.

5.   Paula White, a Labor Department safety official, put the industry witnesses on the defensive over a seeming contradiction in their testimony.

6.   That idea was decidedly unpopular among the music industry witnesses.

7.   With its industry witnesses, the government is arguing that Microsoft bullied companies into deals that reduce competition and do not result in any discernible consumer benefit.

8.   Committee members and industry witnesses said they supported a competing bill that would penalize spammers only if they used a bogus return address.