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(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/readings/services.html)

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• Accounting Services
• Electronic Retail & Distribution
• Financial Activities
• Retail & Marketing
• Consulting

Internet Sites

• THE SERVICES SECTOR (Bibliography) [Bryant College]

• Service Sector Research Group (UK) [School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham (UK)]

  The Service Sector Research Group (SSRG) was established in 1993 with some initial support for staffing and equipment from the University (Birmingham). The Group aims to investigate the growth of service activities in the regional, national and international economy; their role in shaping new economic geographies and the wider implications for society of the move to service dominated economies. With service industries now accounting for more than 70 per cent of GDP and employment in many national economies as well as a growing share of international trade, there is a need by government, industry and commerce for accurate, unbiased research and information about the service sector. This will help corporate decision takers and public policy makers to implement actions that are properly informed about key developments in the most dynamic sector of the contemporary economy.

• ServiceByNet.com,

  "... a global online bidding marketplace for services. Thanks to ServiceByNet.com, buyers and sellers from around the world are now able to efficiently and conveniently trade services and enter into transactions with each other."

• "Creative Services" [Summit in Portland]

  The Creative Service cluster (creative software, multi-media, film & video, graphic arts, and advertising/public relations) is a key economic focus for Portland. It makes up a significant portion of the metropolitan workforce, and is highly clustered in the central city.

• General Agreement on Trade in Services

• Canadian Exports in Services [Industrie Canada - Economic Analysis & Statistics] "Knowledge-intensive services sectors, such as Financial Services, Communications and Business Services (which are found in Commercial Services) are growing particularly fast."

• Producer Services Development Processes (Professor Beyers' NSF Research Project)

Overlake Church (Redmond, WA)

• Overlake's congregation of thousands strong in face of trouble Seattle Times April 5, by Alex Fryer and Carol M. Ostrom Seattle Times staff reporters Every Sunday morning, a river of cars, minivans and pickups flows through Redmond's Sammamish Valley, heading for the massive, pink-and-teal box that is the state's largest church. Five thousand faithful from across the Puget Sound region pass under three metal crosses at the mouth of Overlake Christian Church's half-mile-long parking lot. On Wednesday nights, 1,000 come for another service, making Overlake the most attended church in Washington. And throughout the week, the civic-center-sized church is rarely empty.... But for the first time in those 28 years, the congregation and the leadership must contemplate what Overlake would be like without Moorehead.
• Church is a vision to behold , Seattle Times, Friday, Nov. 28, 1997 by Sally Macdonald REDMOND - The Rev. Bob Moorehead shivered the first time he stood on the bare stage of his new church and looked out at 5,138 empty theater seats fanning out three stories high.
• Look, over there, it's a warehouse, it's a huge hangar; no, it's a 250,000-square-foot mega-house of worship Seattle Times, Saturday, March 22, 1997, by Joe Nabbefeld Seattle Times East bureau REDMOND - For now it looks like something Boeing would build, a huge concrete hangar in the increasingly industrial flats of the Sammamish River. But by this time next year, the $37 million structure at 9900 Willows Road will be the new, electronically hi-tech home of the Northwest's fast-growing mega-church, Overlake Christian Church.

Other Clippings:

• Not all smiles inside Amazon.com ; Seattle Times, November 25, 1999 by Mark Leibovich The Washington Post

  "The attention paid to 28-year-old tech tycoons has created the illusion that they're ubiquitous," said David Smith, the director of policy for the AFL-CIO. A much larger chunk of the labor force is composed of front-line "service" positions, such as cashiers and call-center employees, one of the fastest-growing job categories in the country. Service jobs in technology industries jumped 47 percent during the last five years, according to the congressional Joint Economic Committee, more than double the growth in total service-sector jobs.

• Seattle-area hospitals are carving out a niche in international medical services; Seattle Times, Sunday, November 8, 1998 "Treating people who come to Seattle from overseas still is a relatively tiny part of any hospital's business. But health-care providers such as Swedish now see much untapped potential, particularly in the area of specialty care, such as cancer treatment, infertility procedures and cardiology."
• New rules require nonprofits to reach beyond traditional funding sources Seattle Times, Sunday, April 12, 1998; by Marc Ramirez "Behold the fund-raiser, ambassador of America's nonprofit sector, on whose nervous, goal-conscious shoulders the public welfare rides. Political winds of the past decade have shredded federal programs designed to help the poor, while at the same time, architects of welfare reform have called on the nation's churches and charities to pick up the slack."
• The productivity paradox Seattle Times, Sunday, April 5, 1998 Stephen Dunphy / Times Staff Columnist Economic memo NEW YORK - One of the mysteries in the U.S. economy has been the role of productivity. Productivity is a simple enough concept - how much output is produced by an individual worker or other input in a given period of time. If the same number of workers produces more widgets in a given year, productivity has increased.
  Editorial: Council can put to rest Seattle's hygiene war (Seattle Times, Sunday, March 30, 1997)

  Legal Services:

  • Seattleites spearhead Enron suit 2 local lawyers lead national team pursuing damages Seattle PI Saturday, March 2, 2002 By DAN RICHMAN "People east of Chicago regard us as novices and tend to underestimate the quality of the legal skills out here." .. a San Francisco attorney, agreed. "Their appointment does raise Seattle's visibility, because this is a high-profile case. It's also a difficult case. They have their work cut out for them."
  • Law of supply, demand Big legal firms regroup as smaller rivals win clients with down-home ambiance, lower fees; Seattle Times, March 10, 1996 by Leyla Kokmen After a period of rapid growth in size, salaries and billings, law firms across the country found they no longer had the upper hand. Their clients were savvier, more interested in efficiency and cost savings, and less willing to pay large sums for photocopies and training inexperienced law associates. Billings and salaries plateaued.

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