Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abstract, unfeeling rhetoric of the extremist opposition. The pro-family people are put off by some feminists who dismiss abortions as mere bodily functions. They are equally unsettled by the pervasive bias of the women's movement toward Big Government. Pro-family forces would rather rely on the private sector and their own initiative?that would furnish more positive proof that women have finally arrived in America...
...sense, Jerusalem would again become a divided city, but there should be international guarantees against the erection of barriers to movement of people or goods from one sector of the city to another. Some major civic issues would be dealt with on a citywide basis, while many basic municipal services (recreational facilities, schools, zoning) would be the separate responsibility of each of Jerusalem's quarters. A number of the world's largest cities already operate in this manner; London, for instance, is a confederation of semiautonomous boroughs. Jerusalem's borough governments would be chosen by the various...
...other five panelists--all women--spoke mainly of their personal efforts to balance their work in the public sector with their social and family lives...
...regime. Spokesmen for the front have issued a call for Somoza's immmediate ouster and for free elections to be held, by a provisional government in which the FSLN would be represented. The demands of the Sandinistas include sweeping reform of the agrarian structure, nationalization of the banking sector, concentration of social welfare programs and education in particular, the establishment of diplomatic relations with socialist countries, and the expropriation of Somoza's massive business empire...
...English-speaking business community, although it controls an estimated 80% of the country's private sector, complains that its leverage with the government is weaker than ever. "We are subject to an Afrikaans-speaking tribal government," says Harry Oppenheimer, chairman of the Anglo American Corp. of South Africa Ltd., a mining empire. "We have some influence only if they want to remain on good terms with the rest of the world and want foreign investment to flow in." American investment in South Africa amounts to about $1.5 billion. U.S. companies are bound by American law to avoid discrimination?but cannot...