Since then, untaxed services have become the mainstay of the economy, so sales taxes now contribute only about 22%.
Visitors pass through miles of wheat fields before arriving in town, and agriculture has long been the mainstay of the economy.
The tourism industry, the mainstay of the economy in many of the small Eastern Caribbean Islands, is still very much beach orientated.
The deal Citi's first big acquisition in almost two years is a sign that the group believes the American consumer, who has been the mainstay of the economy, will continue to spend.
To complicate matters further, in recent decades Brazilians have bought up many smallholdings and turned them into vast soya farms, which have become the mainstay of the economy and of government revenues.
For consumers, for so long the mainstay of the American economy, the thrill of the shopping mall seems, finally, to be on the wane.
That would be worrisome, since shoppers have been the mainstay of the American economy over the past two years: personal consumption did much to mitigate the effects of the downturn.
Boaters are the mainstay of the local economy and have lived in harmony with wildlife for decades, he said.
Even so, the government will find it very difficult to rebuild the industrial sector, once the mainstay of the Argentine economy.
Pitched somewhere between a circus and the Animal Planet television channel, the safari has become a mainstay of the Kenyan economy.
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But the qat tree is the mainstay of the country's economy and the downfall of anyone foolish enough to question its pre-eminence.
Recent steps by her administration have been designed to impede tourism along with fishing, a mainstay of the islands' economy and even Argentina's overall trade with Britain.
Despite the years of decline, the cocoa industry is still the mainstay of Ghana's economy.
Now Taiwanese electronics firms the mainstay of the island's economy are racing to move their production lines to Kunshan, carpeting its farmland with high technology factories.
This mainstay of the U.S. economy, deliverer of 6% of the gross domestic product, was sporting change after nearly a century in business.
"As a mainstay of our rural economy, forestry plays a vital role in safeguarding communities and businesses across the country - and is increasingly winning a bigger stake in the domestic and international timber markets, " he said.
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