Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fell two years behind its development timetable while its price rose sharply. The task force report says the system has not worked, will not work, and should never have been expected to work. Dated June 1983 but circulated last week by the Project on Military Procurement, a nonprofit defense sector watchdog, the report analyzes the computer system that was supposed to seek out the infrared "signatures" of enemy targets. In fact, the computer would have run up, in the report's words, "a monumental false alarm rate," and might be fooled by even the most primitive measures, like camouflaging...
...pilot project to provide interest-free loans to law students who take public sector jobs next summer, at least until after graduation...
...these programs, despite their differences, do have a common strand. They are, in Klitgaard's words, "capacity developing": instead of merely providing solutions, they are establishing a new class of managers--whether in the public or private sector--who will be the nuts and bolts of maintaining that country's development...
...public corporations. Others are de facto following the same policy. Significantly, U.S. banks have not publicly singled out the government of any other foreign country in a similar fashion. These new lending policies have contributed to the fact that U.S. bank loans to the South African public sector are at a lower level today than...
...dramatic. At Washington these costs have doubled (from $689 to $ 1,320) in the past three years. Last year Minnesota's instructional charges rose 21.5%, and this year they will go up an additional 15.9%, to $ 1,693. Says Minnesota's president, Peter Magrath: "In the public sector of higher education, really low tuition has gone the way of cheap gasoline...