Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, General Dynamics, more than perhaps any other company, has a tight symbiotic relationship with the Pentagon. It relies on Government contracts for 94% of its business, unlike other contractors, such as Boeing, that depend on the private sector for a sizable percentage of sales. Free from the competitive discipline of the marketplace, General Dynamics has found that pulling strings at the Pentagon can be more important than making products efficiently. The Pentagon, in turn, is dangerously dependent on General Dynamics. It is the only supplier of the Trident submarine and one of two contractors for the SSN 688 attack...
...observers of the aftermath of the struggle reported that none of the dead were wearing the masks. Nor did they show signs of having been exposed to toxic agents. While denying that chemical weapons were brought to bear against the invaders, however, Major General Sultan Hashem Ahmed, an Iraqi sector commander, said, "If we had gas, we would have used...
...militancy has its roots in a January meeting in Los Angeles between President Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. They agreed on the need to open the Japanese market to American-made electronics, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, along with forest products and telecommunications goods and services. This sector--or industry-wide--approach was a sharp shift from the previous goal of trying to gain entry on a product- by-product basis, a narrowly focused tactic that was getting nowhere. Says one official: "As soon as we knock down one clay pigeon, another pops up. We have got to knock...
Because there are gay men and lesbians in every sector of the University community--as undergraduates, graduates students, faculty, administrators, and other University employees--it is not enough for the Undergraduate admissions office to adopt a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. After all, only a small part of the larger University community is comprised by undergraduates. Currently, students applying to the Graduate School of Arts and sciences have no guarantee that their sexual orientation will not become a factor when the application is considered. The argument that no student is asked, in the course...
...that the move wasn't necessary. The government can no longer afford to subsidize an inefficient sector that more than anything else needs a heavy dose of the free market. If the deficit is ever to be tamed, Washington will have to say no to other groups, some deserving, others not. But it is the President's intentions that are in doubt. This week's veto was a token gesture of fiscal sobriety, another in a long series of instances where the President has found a specific and relatively weak group to bear the burden of his deficit...