Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TRANSPORTATION. In this sector, which now accounts for 25% of total U.S. energy use, the prime offender is the automobile. It not only operates inefficiently (using only about 20% of the energy potential in gasoline; the rest is thrown off in heat and exhaust), but also is used wastefully. The Office of Emergency Preparedness says that 54% of all trips are less than five miles-e.g., simply driving to the corner drugstore to buy a pack of cigarettes. Even on longer commutes to work, the average six-seat car contains only 1.4 people. To the dismay of Detroit, some...
...white sector in Namibia currently depends on Africans for cheap labor. Fifty-five to sixty per cent of the blacks are forced to live in the arid Bantustans of the northern frontier--which are too barren to support the population--while a tax on the Africans drives the men to work in the white "police zone." Black Africans are forbidden by law to fill skilled jobs...
...WHITE sector of Namibia has enjoyed a boon economy since World War II due to increasing numbers of foreign corporations investing in mineral extraction. Meanwhile, the South African government has given no consideration to reserving Namibia's resources...
...matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, home of many ultra-Orthodox Jews, young men wearing dark frock coats and prayer curls regularly hurl stones at buses that tour the sector on the Sabbath, violating what they consider...
Even under the new reform, central planners in Moscow will continue to make many key decisions on prices, distribution and allocation of materials. The dead hand of the planner falls most heavily on agriculture, which is the weakest sector of the Soviet economy; the U.S.S.R. will again this year be forced to make massive grain purchases in the West. Though about 30% of the population is engaged in agriculture, the farm yields remain unsatisfactory, largely because of shortages in good fertilizer and such modern machinery as combines. Because the country lacks sufficient storage and processing facilities, each year about...