1.   Informal sector activities include such occupations as street-vending of lottery tickets, food, combs, cigarettes and the inevitable chewing gum.

2.   Weisbrod argued that two factors are particularly relevant to the stimulation of voluntary sector activity.

3.   And measures of manufacturing and service sector activity from the Institute for Supply Management, which closely follows purchasing patterns, gained ground in May.

4.   People found it more profitable to invest in non-tradeable sector activities such as stocks, finance and property.

5.   Numbers are due shortly on manufacturing sector activity.

6.   Service sector activity remained below the level achieved at the beginning of the year.

7.   The growing demand for raw materials to feed European and American factories encouraged investments in primary sector activities in these colonies.

8.   The industry would do well to consider the possibilities of integrating itself with other major agriculture sector activities.

9.   Further, service sector activity was stable in the quarter.

10.   The reports include home building, retail sales, weekly unemployment claims and the report by the Philadelphia reserve bank on industrial sector activity.