The tourist trade, which is highly promoted by the government and well catered to by the huge service sector, now constitutes a significant component of the economy.
But the huge service sector, bucking the ebbing tide in American industry, produced enough new jobs to clearly suggest that the overall economy had not tipped into recession.
The huge service sector also appears to be holding its own, expanding at an annual rate of 3.6percentt, down only one-tenth of a percentage point from early this year, according to the Economic Cycle Research Institute.
Private sector hiring weakened in November because of the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the Northeast, but the nation's huge services sector continued to expand.
The huge public services outsourcing company Capita has been confirmed by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, as the main contractor for the next generation of electronic tagging of offenders.
David S. Pottruck, the president and co-chief executive of Charles Schwab, the huge financial services company, qualifies in both size and professional stature.
Mr. Cheney's ties to the huge oil services, engineering and reconstruction company have become a favorite Democratic attack line in the 2004 campaign.
"The production and export of iconic British cars like the Mini is making a real contribution to the rebalancing of the economy that this government is determined to achieve," he said, referring to an attempt to lift manufacturing to make the country less dependent on the huge financial services sector.
The huge U.S. services sector slowed its pace of growth last month and the number of jobs in the sector fell, reinforcing views of a U.S. economy struggling with a hangover from the boom years and, now, fear of war.
