While the city economy is by no means strong, she added, its current difficulties are related to the national recession.

Social services, although a smaller sector of the city economy, has grown more rapidly.

The south region has developed tourism and fishing as a way to improve the city economy.

Many experts had assumed, based on experience, that a strong city economy and greater demand for workers would draw more people into the job market.

Never mind that his own administration put the diplomats' contribution to the city economy at more than $3 billion a year.

Another difference is that fish occupy a bigger place in the city economy than flowers.

The five markets covered by the bill are important assets of the city economy.

The city economy has clearly cooled since fall, however, when its job growth rate hit 2.9 percent.

The city economy is based primarily on the production of wine grapes.

Still, the city economy has a long way to go toward full recovery.