"One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies."

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Source : "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

Peter Dicken

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“I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.”
“Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.”
“I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.”
“I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.”
“Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.”
“Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.”
“Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb”

Source : "Is Obama's Nuclear Security Summit More Than a Symbolic Gesture?" by Huma Khan, abcnews.go.com. April 12, 2010.
“Adversity is an experience, not a final act.”

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