Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While schools have had little problem finding appropriate hardware, they have run into difficulty unearthing low-cost, quality software. To help alleviate this situation, I have introduced a bill to establish a National Educational Software Competition, which would get the computer industry and the educational sector ,to work together toward producing software for all teaching levels...
Owens said he found the workers were glad to be employed in the profit sector. "There was a very difficult transition, but after five months we feel morale is high," he said. "Going from an institution like Harvard to a large company with a profit motive is hard, so I'm pleased," Owens added...
American manufacturing is still less than it could be, or must be if U.S. factories are to regain world markets. Says Hewlett-Packard President John Young: "A strong manufacturing sector is central to this country's ability to compete. We shouldn't point to our surplus in services and convince ourselves that probably everything is going to be all right. Manufacturing is the base that creates many of those services." For U.S. manufacturing, investors, politicians and plain citizens, that is an important nuts-and-bolts lesson. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Detroit and Adam Zagorin/New...
More important, though, voters should be watchful of the apparent willingness of Reagan and some Congressmen to sell their political souls to religious lobbies; with school prayer on hold, at least for the moment, these politicians may well be seeking to wave the banner of God in some other sector of official life...
...sued to integrate the same Birmingham police and fire departments that had forcibly put them down. After a drawn-out legal struggle, the city signed a consent decree in 1981, agreeing to hire minorities and women in about the same proportion as workers in the city's private sector: between 33% and 50% for blacks, and 15% and 30% for women. The U.S. Justice Department backed the lawsuit and helped draft the eventual agreement. At that time-four months after Reagan took office-a department official pronounced the consent decree to be "reasonable and lawful...