Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Counsel Fred Fielding is worried-because of low pay, conflict-of-interest suspicions, financial disclosure requirements and press probing of their private lives-about the increasing difficulty of luring citizens into executive positions. What troubles Fielding most is the growing assumption that a person of achievement from the private sector who agrees to take an important Administration post must have an ulterior motive-and therefore must prove his honorable intentions. Excellent people still volunteer for Government service, notes Fielding. "But I wonder how many talented men and women these days never show any interest and we never hear of them...
...economic entity, greater Los Angeles is world class: if the area seceded, it would have a G.N.P. larger than that of Mexico or Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks...
While Mexico accounts for an estimated 92% of the illegal immigrants coming into the U.S., the number from other countries is also on the rise. In one Texas Border Patrol sector, arrested Salvadorans have doubled over the past year, from 266 to 542. One of them, José, 25, is trying to raise his $3,500 bond. "I can't go back to El Salvador," he says. "I'd be shot." Like Afghan and Haitian refugees, Salvadorans present thorny problems for the INS because they come requesting asylum. To get it, they must show that they have been...
...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...