The main industry in the southern city of Jacmel, for example, was once harvesting coffee.
Liberia has rubber, timber and diamonds, but today the main industry seems to be looting.
Agriculture is now the island's main industry, and dairy farming is its most competitive business.
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Cuba's main industry, tourism, has been hit hard with thousands cancelling their flights.
Sure, drillers are urged to follow guidelines of the main industry trade group who certainly knows this better than anyone else.
Myawaddy's squalor the plywood-and-tin shacks and unpaved muddy roads crowded with mangy dogs and goats belies the lucrative smuggling that may be the city's main industry.
Some of the people evacuated from the immediate vicinity of the plant returned home two days later, considerably more skeptical of Tokaimura's main industry.
Until the town opened itself up to greener pursuits, the main industry was raising cattle, and most of the local attractions are still located on working farms.
An economy whose main industry, offshore banking, is being shut.
By 2000, says Mr Clark, entertainment was Chicago's main industry.
Although the Air Transport Association, the main industry group representing U.S. airlines, hailed the news, stocks for several major airlines, such as Continental, U.S. Airways and Delta posted only modest gains Monday.
There are some small to medium-sized firms based here but although the main industry, tourism, has been in decline over the last twenty years, Eastbourne has benefited from growth in the economy.
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"Like all good goals, these are rather aggressive, " said Mr. Hylander, who recently was named co-chair of the main airline industry-government safety team.
While the terms of the deal are unlikely to change, if Mr Osborne holds out it will be the first time Britain has been outvoted on a financial services issue, a significant move overturning the informal convention that states are not overruled on law relating to their main national industry.
Remember, when hundred of billions or trillions of dollars are at stake, Wall Street, main street, industry, speculators, and millions of private investor have every incentive in the world to anticipate major changes.
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As a landlocked country without many urban areas, nature-themed tourism is the main part of the industry by default.
The main reason for the industry's lucrative adjustment: big shows at steep prices.
But when it comes to the investment accounts, the main source of defense industry revenues, the Democrats are bad news.
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Republicans are fighting key provisions they say take regulation too far and threaten to undermine the recovery of the banking industry and Main Street.
Silicon wafers, used to manufacture solar devices, is also a main component in the semiconductor industry.
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Fourth, high-end customers who want sophisticated phones drive the Japanese market, but the main growth in the wireless industry overall is in emerging markets, which need cheap phones.
Avio is the prime contractor for Vega, the new European rocket system designed to launch the small satellites that are expected to be the main driver of the aerospace industry.
Its founding dean had left after just three years and the search for his replacement lasted nearly a year, plus the program still awaits the imprimatur of the industry's main accrediting body.
Even if recruiters do indicate expectations of more ethics curriculum, some say schools still won't change without clear marching orders from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the industry's main accrediting group.
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The American film industry is extremely reluctant to discuss the China concessions Hollywood is making, and the industry's main lobbying group, the Motion Picture Association of America, tries to portray the practice in the best possible light.
One of the main ways Activision and the industry have been looking to offset this decline is to extend the lifetime of a game through online multiplayer features and matches and additional content for purchase on game networks like Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
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Wall Street's main lobbying group, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, backed that view.
The main problem facing the road haulage industry is over-capacity too many trucks chasing too little work.
This will be the main driver to the iron ore industry going forward.
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