On some data, particularly when you drill down to sectors including hospitality, financial services and construction, they have good reason for doubt.
The department said the new index has been been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of the production, services and construction industries.
This is already being done in many States and the cooperation between archaeological services and construction companies has proven fruitful and positive for both sides.
In Northern Ireland, we do have a series of figures called called the indexes of production, services and construction which are sometimes used as a proxy for GDP.
Nonfarm payrolls added 236, 000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday morning, with the private sector adding 246, 000 and big gains in professional and business services, construction and health care.
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The index has been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of output from the production, services and construction sectors combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector.
Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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Further, if there are markets with insufficient pipeline capacity (such as New England and parts of New York), Skipping Stone suggests that by syncing the two markets, economic price signals become more transparent and should stimulate provision of services or construction of additional pipeline capacity.
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The need to build pipelines from gas fields to utilities and the requirement to build networks of charging stations on highways and in major cities will require a whole new massive infrastructure effort, which in turn will need the services of construction workers, engineers and other assorted building folk.
David Bucknall, chair of the board at Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Global Construction and Quantity Surveying, for services to the construction industry.
Federal, state, and local governments buy everything, from office supplies to construction services, from catering to janitorial services.
The recession of the past 18 months has inflicted serious pain on companies selling commodities and construction services.
GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.
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Suntech Power designs, develops, manufactures, and markets photovoltaic products and also provides engineering and construction services for building solar power systems.
Another sixth of the jobs would be created to provide goods and services for the construction sites, including insurance and equipment rental.
Most important, he says, Doosan is providing engineering, procurement and construction services, or EPC, for the Rabigh plants, as well as the key components.
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Halliburton consists of two major divisions, KBR, which provides logistics and construction services, and the Energy Services Group, which concentrates on support services for oil explorers.
All sorts of other surveys, covering everything from spending in shops, activity in financial services through to construction work, point to Scotland doing rather well just now.
But things like construction are services for the government rather than for the taxpayer.
Both construction and services have grown enormously in recent years and have become big engines of employment growth.
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Among the industrial sectors, investors were most enthusiastic about the prospects for information technology, construction, services and pharmaceuticals.
The company's businesses include services for engineering, construction, technology, chemicals and energy industries.
Over the past five years I've studied businesses and helped them change in financial services, textiles, construction and technology.
But after four years of recession, even the sectors that were pampered, like construction and services, have been forced to restructure or go under.
The engineering and leasing of construction machinery is involved in provision of construction related services, such as scaffolding, electrical installations and leasing of metal formworks.
It provides design and construction management services on large projects, including ports, toll roads, subways, and water projects, as well as providing maintenance of schools and airports.
Under the deal, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction and services to Total's Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin offshore platforms and the St Fergus onshore gas plant.
Volunteers rely on reports from the individual communities to determine needs, then send out those requests on Twitter and Facebook - for instance, asking for gluten-free or diabetic food, or requesting volunteer services of mechanics, construction workers, or medical professionals.
Most of the jobs added during September came from the professional and business services, healthcare, and construction industries.
The jobs came mainly in the healthcare, manufacturing, construction and food services sectors, the Labor Department said.
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