Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been that good," Jeff says. "I've only done about 200 freeze-dryings in two years. If business doesn't pick up, I might have to sell my machine to a funeral parlor. I've been negotiating with one that's thinking of using my machines in the human sector. It has this idea for 'perpetual viewing chapels...
...Drug-sniffing dogs for the private sector," he says, beaming. "Parents could rent 'em to sniff out their kids' rooms to see if they're hiding drugs. Big businesses could use them to sniff out the desks of employees they suspect are using drugs. That would avoid all those constitutional questions about urine testing and lie detector tests." Jeff's eyes open wide and unblinking behind his thick-lensed glasses. "Whaddaya think...
...firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of Education. Since 1986, he has been teaching high school math in the New York City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle, 39, has no regrets. "Getting these kids through high school is much more satisfying than working behind a desk," he says. That kind of gratification translates into high job-retention rates. In the past school...
Tsongas' plan would bring more executives to state college boards of trustees and more college officials to business boards. The plan would also include a more aggressive effort to solicit community and private sector financial support for education. The program would also tie additional funding for state campuses to their individual performances...
...component of the court's ruling was the requirement that all government distinctions based on race be subject to "strict scrutiny." This means that public-sector affirmative-action programs are valid only if they serve the "compelling state interest" of redressing "identified discrimination." Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a bitter dissent joined by Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun, called the decision "a deliberate and giant step backward in this court's affirmative-action jurisprudence...