Its economy is primarily based on the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, media corporations, and convention venues.

The national labour-force is estimated at 12, 770, of whom approximately 59. 4 % work in the service sector but less than 0. 6 % are estimate to work in agriculture ( the balance in industry ).

After 1945, for both practical and ideological reasons, the government decided to bring the rail service into the public sector.

Wealth-producing primary sector jobs in the U. S. such as those in manufacturing and computer software have often been replaced by much lower paying wealth-consuming jobs such as those in retail and government in the service sector when the economy recovered from recessions.

The service sector is heavily concentrated in trading activities and catering-related services.

Due to the well-developed tourist industry, many citizens work in service jobs in that sector.

The economy mainly revolves around the agricultural sector and government service, which together employ about half of the work force.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.

The 2007 ILO Global Employment Trends Report indicated that services have surpassed agriculture for the first time in human history: " In 2006 the service sector ’ s share of global employment overtook agriculture for the first time, increasing from 39. 5 per cent to 40 per cent.

The management thinker and translator of the Toyota Production System for service, Professor John Seddon argues that attempting to create economies by increasing scale is powered by myth, in the service sector.

To achieve this, the Corporation identified agricultural improvements, tourism, self-sufficiency in energy, development of the industrial and service sector, fisheries, and land subdivision as areas to tackle.

On the average, their workweek outside the home was several hours shorter than men's because a greater portion of them were employed only part-time or worked in the service sector, where hours were shorter than they were in manufacturing.

The factor land may, however, for simplification purposes be merged with capital in some cases ( due to land being of little importance in the service sector and manufacturing ).

The service sector contributes around 70 % of the total GDP, industry 29. 1 %, and agriculture 0. 9 %.

In 1997, the service sector in Guadeloupe contributed 85 percent of GDP and provided employment for 68 percent of the labor force.

It is a town with a prosperous service sector which is also home to industrial companies and has good cultural and educational amenities.

The WTO expanded its scope from traded goods to include trade within the service sector and intellectual property rights.

About one-third of the Honduran labor force was estimated to be working in the service or " other " sector in 1993.

Located in the heart of Central-Europe, Hungary ’ s geostrategic location plays a significant role in the rise of the service sector as the country ’ s central position makes it suitable and rewarding to invest.

Ferry services from Hobart's Eastern Shore into the city were once a common form of public transportation, but with lack of government funding, as well as a lack of interest from the private sector, there has been the demise of a regular commuter ferry service – leaving Hobart's commuters relying solely on travel by automobiles and buses.

The tertiary sector of the economy ( also known as the service sector or the service industry ) is one of the three economic sectors, the others being the secondary sector ( approximately the same as manufacturing ) and the primary sector ( agriculture, fishing, and extraction such as mining ).

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas.

Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least.

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

You have heard him tell these young people that during his almost 50 years of service in the Congress he has seen the Kaisers and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis, the Tojos and Stalins and Khrushchevs, come and go and that we are passing on to them the freest Nation that mankind has ever known.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.

In the allocation pattern worked out for these frequencies, the provision of long-range service has to some extent been subordinated to the other two objectives -- assignment of multiple facilities, and assignment of stations in as many communities as possible.

How long has it been since you reviewed the objectives of your benefit and service program??

Thus, during any given year ( A ) if the revenues from the residential service are $7,000,000, ( B ) if the operating expenses imputed to this class of service come to $5,000,000, and ( C ) if the net investment in ( or value of ) the plant and equipment deemed devoted to this service amounts to $30,000,000, the cost analyst will report that residential service, in the aggregate, has yielded a return of $2,000,000 or 6-2/3 per cent.

-- William J. Seidel, state fire warden in the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, has retired after 36 years of service.

Ierulli will replace Desmond D. Connall who has been called to active military service but is expected back on the job by March 31.

The Lummus Cotton Gin Co. has had a sales and service office in Dallas since 1912.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

In carrying out this program science has undoubtedly performed a very considerable service for which it can claim due credit.

We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.

Conversely, a standard line on which voice service has been unsubscribed ( such as an ADSL dry loop ) may still accept calls to the 958 test exchange but not allow calls to standard numbers.

Danish tradition has preserved record of two governors of Schleswig, father and son, in their service, Frowinus ( Freawine ) and Wigo ( Wig ), from whom the royal family of Wessex claimed descent.

The fact that Christendom has periodically grafted instrumental music into the worship service probably obscures, for contemporary adherents, the long, general and conscientious teaching of a cappella.