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.
For consumers, for so long the mainstay of the American economy, the thrill of the shopping mall seems, finally, to be on the wane.
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.
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.
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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Despite the years of decline, the cocoa industry is still the mainstay of Ghana's economy.
Boaters are the mainstay of the local economy and have lived in harmony with wildlife for decades, he said.
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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