Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...available date would indicate, figures which aggregate farm profits for the entire nation are extremely unreliable because of the large number of small poor farmers, particularly in the South. The following figures are more relevant to any discussion of the UFW's claims because they pertain to that sector of the market that employs large number of farm laborers. California Department of Food and Agriculture figures show in 1973, farm income in that state was a record $77 billion, up 32 per cent over the 1972 figure of $5.8 billion. Bureau of the Census figures for California published...
...Ferrara may be quite right that there are few large farm corporations (in fact there are not many large farms). But the number of large farms is simply no indication of their power and influence in the market. As the above figures show, a few farms dominate that sector of the market that employs farm labor, and it is primarily against these large farms that UFW has struggled in California, Florida, Arizona and other states...
...CORRUPTION: I lose my temper with people who are not honest. I don't like them. That does not mean there is more corruption here than elsewhere. We are going to establish in our civilian sector the same thing that we have in the armed forces, a Committee of Five [who investigate corruption charges]. Even if you do not have absolute proof of the kind you need in [our] courts to convict someone of corruption, if you have enough information you can render a verdict outside the judiciary...
...Harvard decides to expand by more than 25 per cent, then the city will have to take a hard look at what would happen," Bowyer said. "Harvard has really reached the point where it doesn't have any elbow room left. Any expansion in one sector will be at the expense of another...
...large share of our government consists of organizations which accomplish one purpose or another in ways that are not radically different from organizations in the private sector. For example, as a hospital the Cambridge (City) Hospital is not too different from the Somerville Hospital or the Mt. Auburn Hospital. Of course some of the governmental organizations are unique, such as the Army or the Internal Revenue Service, but they still follow the organizational principles that would be followed if they were not public enemies...