11.   Delinquencies hurting the industry now are on cards issued two to three years ago, he said.

12.   Developing countries have defended their restrictive position by saying their domestic telecommunications industries would be hurt by free trade.

13.   Even a good crop, though, could hurt the industry as pork producers and poultry processors return to normal output.

14.   From a consumer perspective, it is hurting our industry.

15.   Indeed, Wall Street may have grown disenchanted with the insurance sector as fraudulent claims and rising repair costs continue to hurt the industry.

16.   Isaacs, a professional Web designer, believes the music industry is being hurt by its own apparent resistance to the burgeoning new medium.

17.   Jurors must now decide whether the talk show host hurt the industry.

18.   New markets have opened up in recent decades, but turmoil in Asia and Russia have hurt the industry, he said.

19.   Other industry observers fear that the current policy could hurt US industry by driving future users to a newly completed, similar Russian positioning system called GLONASS.

20.   Other local industries have been hurt by the fallout of the overseas financial crisis, including financial services and high-tech companies.