Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study is looking into such questions as conservation versus urban growth, and the unplanned spreading of suburbs versus optimal patterns for urban expansions, in eight principal towns along Boston's southeast sector...
...government interference in its affairs, it is being mentioned as a possible candidate for partial state owner ship. The company's leaders, 53-year-old Chairman Giovanni Agnelli and his 39-year-old brother, Managing Director Umberto, are deeply committed to keeping the company in the private sector, but they face conditions that Umberto has publicly labeled impossible...
...troubles point to a trend ominous for other companies besides Fiat: in attempting to cope with Italy's social and economic problems, the government is burdening the private sector with more responsibilities than it can handle. Fiat has tried to help by building big new plants in the depressed southern Mezzogiorno and worker housing in its home city of Turin. Umberto Agnelli criticizes the unions for not taking these expenditures into account when pressing for wage increases to catch up with the cost of living, spiraling at the rate of 15.6% annually; but his greatest scorn is reserved...
...Incas and the life of Western society to which they aspire. In their trips to Cochabamba and to other cities in the valley, they observe a life style that makes them feel backward. The cholos fill the positions of schoolteacher, restauranteur, shopkeeper and administrator. They form the upwardly mobile sector of the Bolivian countryside. I hoped to be able to find some who would not be shy, who would be able to talk about their customs, their work and their political attitudes...
...mixed white and Indian blood). Most of the real activity, however, takes place not in these dusty little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb down into this commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early morning sky begins to lighten, the quarter is slowly transformed from sleepy urban streets into a carnival-like marketplace of relentless color and activity...