MANUFACTURING: The service sector dominates Orange County’s...

MANUFACTURING: The service sector dominates Orange County’s economy, but manufacturing is surprisingly strong and growing. . . . The county’s 257,100 manufacturing employees in 1988 ranked ninth among U.S. metropolitan areas. . . . Despite an aerospace slowdown, employment rose 2,000 this year. . . . “That’s one of the things that people underestimate about the local economy,” said one economist. “It’s nicely diversified.”