Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planes were not carrying the usual hordes of summer tourists. As each flight approached the plain between the capital city of Nicosia and the Kyrenia Range, which shields the capital from the sea, a stick of Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk named Sami, smiled broadly as he unbuckled his gear and slipped out of his brown chute. "This makes me tremendously happy," he said, apparently...
...Ledra Palace Hotel is almost smack on the Green Line that runs through Nicosia, dividing the Turkish sector from the Greek. Most of the hotel guests were awakened Saturday morning by a long burst of weapons fire...
There would undoubtedly have been more businessmen had our age limit been higher. André Malraux, that archetypal homme engage, once noted that America's "sense of civism" was among its most striking features, especially in the private sector. Yet at 45 most financial and industrial whiz kids are still preoccupied with climbing corporate ladders, and their deepest involvement...
...tokenism is on the way out in private enterprise, blacks are thoroughly integrated into the public sector. Comprising 11% of the nation's population, they hold 15% of all full-time jobs with the Federal Government. In 1970, 39% of the nation's professionals were employed by federal, state and local government; but 60% of black professionals held such posts. Government programs that proliferated in the 1960s took many blacks up the job escalator into the middle class in half the usual time. "A new breed of cat was produced, the black technocrat," says Robert Coard, director...
...important to find a way to reconcile the conflicts between an academic's participation in the public sector and his commitment to the "open-minded pursuit of truth," Cox said...