Transdniestria's smugglers and arms salesmen the backbone of the economy, along with a big Ukrainian-owned steelworks trade through Ukraine, especially via Odessa.
By 1936, industrial production surpassed its 1929 peak, an indication that the backbone of the economy trumped the stock market.
For one thing, the companies that make up the backbone of the economy, the small and middle-sized ones, most of them in central and northern Italy, are remarkably buoyant.
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An Iranian controlled oil economy, financed by euros, would threaten to displace the dollar and the US economy as the backbone of the global economy.
In the far-eastern port of Vladivostok, thousands have taken to the streets to protest against higher import tariffs on second-hand Japanese cars, the sale of which is the backbone of the local economy.
According to research by Professor Yijiang Wang of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing, SMEs are the backbone of the Chinese economy.
This is particularly true of the Mittelstand, the small and not-so-small companies that are the backbone of the German economy.
And these Americans are the backbone of our economy, the backbone of our middle class.
And they've always formed the backbone of the American economy.
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Agriculture is the backbone of our economy and is the most important contributor of our overall gross domestic product.
Yet there is much to suggest that Germany will fare worse than most in the slump and that its pain will be felt most acutely by its famed Mittelstand, the thousands of family-owned small and medium-sized firms that are the backbone of its economy.
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And if the price of gas falls so far that drilling becomes unaffordable, Pinedale will not just lose the backbone of its economy.
San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, and the industry itself has become the backbone of the San Francisco economy.
After all, small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy and were hit particularly hard by the Great Recession.
With the right tools, skills, and opportunities, the next generation of coders, inventers, explorers, and engineers will help form the backbone of a strong American economy.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, which is why President Obama has a plan to help them grow and create jobs.
And the truth is the middle-class families that are the backbone of our economy have felt their economic security eroding since long before this recession hit.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
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For these reasons, Americans are now reaching the conclusion that big government is the only chance we have if we are to hope to create a fair and equitable opportunity for hard working people to not only support their families but to support the small businesses that are the backbone of our economy.
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The area became the backbone of California's international trade economy and developed into a major thoroughfare and warehousing district for goods coming out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
"Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy, " Cebeci said.
They form the backbone of the U.S. economy.
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They have carried out kidnappings, mainly outside Algeria, and have never launched a major attack on the oil and gas industry that has long been the backbone of Algeria's economy.
That leaves the Mittelstand, the mid-sized firms that are the backbone of Germany's export-driven economy, most exposed to a credit squeeze.
If they have the backbone to make the hard decisions, pluck us from the edge of the cliff by giving us some clarity, the economy will give us all more of what we need jobs, prosperity and growth.
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