Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Extra police patrols were visible throughout the divided city's eastern sector...
...similar complaints, Beijing announced plans last year to scuttle the job-allocation system this November. But on April 13 the State Council rescinded the scheduled reform. The decision was understandable. Rather than work in state-run enterprises, which need talented help desperately, most college graduates would opt for private-sector jobs that offer more money, greater opportunities for advancement and the chance to travel abroad. But the government's about-face last April, combined with the death two days later of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded Communist Party Chairman ousted in early 1987, contributed to the student demonstrations that culminated...
There is no shortage of suggestions on what Gorbachev should do. Western economists advise some breathtakingly sweeping changes: decontrol prices, end huge state subsidies, expand the private sector, open a capital market with realistic interest rates. Soviet specialists call for something more elusive: effective leadership. Says Oleg Bogomolov, director of Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System: "To sustain perestroika, a new speedup, more radical change, is required." Gorbachev, adds Ambartsumov, "talks too much and doesn't carry through his decisions...
...writer and Councillor Duehay, who is reported as being so concerned with propriety. When there was opportunity to make the rhetoric of equal opportunity a reality, which was the core issue regarding the continued presence or absence of the Commonwealth Day School, a school which serves a significant sector of minority students, at its 113 Brattle Street site, where was Councillor Duehay as a drum major for justice within his own neighborhood? He joined with his neighbors in a chorus of "Just Say No." Schooldays have been brought to a close for the Commonwealth Day School at the Brattle Street...
...Agnelli, chairman of Italy's Fiat. Still, some success stories show that Western Europe has not been entirely eclipsed at the high-tech end of the market, where the battle for survival will be keenest. Airbus Industrie has emerged as Boeing's main competitor in the lucrative commercial aviation sector. While the U.S. struggles to regain momentum in its space shuttle program, Western Europe's Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-nation European Space Agency, has completed 33 launches and has $2.1 billion worth of contracts on its order books. On the research front, Western Europe is poised...