Sentences with phrase «poster child for industry»

Between accusations that Hello Games and Sean Murray lied about the game's content, and a public debate about the merits of marketing, there is No Man's Sky — a title that's become the new poster child for an industry of hype.

«Talk about a poster child for an industry that has really kind of ignored customers and ignored customer cares and gouged at every corner,» Legere said of the pay - TV market during T - Mobile's earnings call Tuesday.

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But by 2015, with oil prices having cratered, the technological wonder that was Vito appeared a poster child for an overconfident industry — an expensive relic.

BRL Hardy was the poster child of the Australian wine industry in its halcyon days, with Mr Millar taking it from a $ 100 million company in 1992 to a $ 1.9 billion buyout bonanza for shareholders in 2003.

The company is a carefully chosen poster child for Obama's stimulus plans: While so many manufacturers struggle with slowing sales, Cardinal Fastener is growing and adding staff, thanks to its focus on the green energy industry.

The senator gathered with area residents Friday to protest what he called the poster child for the unwarranted expansion of the cell phone industry outside -LSB-...]

Pryor and his anti-public education operatives have become the poster children for what is wrong with the corporate education reform industry's effort to destroy and privatize Connecticut's public education system.

Amanda Hocking — who became the poster child for self - publishing on the Kindle after she made more than $ 2 million from a series of young - adult novels she wrote and published in the past year — signed a $ 2 - million deal earlier this year with St. Martin's Press, a unit of publishing giant Macmillan, to write a new series of young - adult novels (my colleague Cyndy Aleo wrote a series of posts recently based on her interviews with several young authors about the changes in the industry).

My poster child for that was the steel industry in 2002, where 20 + firms went insolvent.

My poster child for relatively good dumb regulation is the insurance industry in the US.

Detroit and other parts of Michigan that are feeling the brunt of the country's ailing auto industry are the poster children for areas where a weak economy will keep home sales and prices in the doldrums throughout the year.