Concurrently, a lot of opportunities started opening up in the civilian industry.

Otherwise, civilian industries can make good use of laid-off defense workers.

But critics say civilian industry should support the Pentagon, and not the other way around.

Specifically, the cut in the military budget fed the civilian high-tech industry.

Finding something missing in civilian industry, Vaughn had volunteered to go back to sea.

However, there was almost no civilian "high-tech" industry in the area.

Though Y-12 is a weapons plant, the drill incident may have implications for the civilian nuclear industry.

Like competition in civilian industry, this should drive down costs.

They say it will take Iraq many years to rebuild the military and civilian industries devastated by the war.

Moreover, foreign civilian industries started to pull ahead even faster.