Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salient that has been won for them by the Turkish army. Said Rauf Denktas., leader of the 119,000 Turks on Cyprus: "We want Kyrenia to come back to normal, but it will be different now; we will be the master." Denktas. hinted that federation of the Turkish sector of the island to Turkey it self might be his eventual goal...
...blame the American worker for demanding more? In the private, nonfarm sector, his real hourly compensation has been declining for more than 15 months-and he has to get off the treadmill some time...
...concludes that a democratically-biased system of checks and balances is unable to build vast public works without the warping influence of a demon like Moses. Caro tends to underestimate the extent to which Moses himself created the difficulties that surrounded public construction by the the "checks and balances" sector. But at a time when there are people on the loose who go on building things like the World Trade Center, Caro's book is good medicine. After all, it was the same Nelson Rockefeller who threw Moses out who built Rockefeller Center and Albany Mall...
...language that fewer could even comprehend. (Editor Oliver Jensen was moved to rewrite the Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese: "I haven't checked these figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country...") The private sector was as confusing as the federal. It was the time of ad lingo, when ideas were things that were played by ear, came off the top of the head, were run up flagpoles or got flown by the seat of the pants. The headlines hawked foreign news that seemed simultaneously remote...
...communities each formed their own militia, manning checkpoints on roads leading from one sector into the other. Inside Nicosia, tourists wandering from the south side to the north to visit the Turkish quarter felt that they were crossing a frontier into another country...