Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa ranks third. No Black African country even makes the list. Between 1977 and 1980, Israel exported $367 million in major arms, accounting for 29 percent of all Third World major arms exports. And its biggest customer was South Africa. (8) The weapons industry constitutes the largest sector of the Israeli economy. By one Wall Street Journal estimate, 25 percent of the Israeli workforce is employed in military-related production...
Such public belt tightening has led to a new eagerness on the part of applicants for work in the private sector. "I had six or seven young men in here recently who were willing to take the jobs and salaries we were offering," said one Western banker in Bahrain (pop. 330,000). "These were people fresh out of school who in the past would have been asking for and probably getting...
...entry into the computer field symbolizes the company's gradual break since the late 1950s with its research-oriented beginnings. BBN now divides its financial statements into two halves: research and consulting, and computer and communications products. The future profits clearly lie within the latter sales-oriented sector, which has grown much quicker than its research counterpart in the last several years...
...nation's business and government leaders gathered at the Kennody School of Government this weekend to settle a dispute between the Environmental Protection Agency and a company accused of pollution. The catch; the dispute was a case-study and those arguing the government's case were from the private sector. While those defending the company's actions were representatives of the state...
...important to put public issues on the private sector agenda and vice versa," Knowlton said, "so that both sides can make their own work more effective...