Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent $4 million jobs bill--will help only those men and women who lost their jobs because of insufficient demand. But there is a growing pool of Americans who simply can't find work because they don't have the proper skills for the increasing technical industrial sector. Millions of young adults, when looking for a job, are completely unprepared to find gainful employment, or at least gainful employment in their region. At a time when training is especially crucial to match work with workers, commission after commission releases reports declaring the state of American education a disaster...
...future. In particular, Japan's emphasis on high technology and cooperation between the government and private industry should serve as a model for the West. High technology creates new industries to replace the old, dying ones like steel and automobiles that simply can not be salvaged. Government-private sector cooperation allows for flexible long-term planning, essential if the shortcomings of the market system are to be rectified...
...When she finally was eliminated in the tallying, most of her votes transferred to Independents (i.e. voters who supported Wilkes first, backed Independents as second choices). A major beneficiary was incumbent City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, whose North Cambridge neighborhood is experiencing gentrification similar to that in the eastern sector of the city...
...agreement further specifies that the security area in southern Lebanon, stretching generally from the Israeli border to a line running east along the Awali River, which enters the Mediterranean Sea just north of Sidon, is to be divided into two zones. The northern sector is to be patrolled by a regular Lebanese army brigade, while the southern is to be patrolled by a territorial brigade made up of soldiers from the immediate area...
...steel industry has also become weak, inefficient and a drain on the American economy. Steel executives have allowed their mills to become outmoded. Observes Harald Malmgren, a trade consultant in Washington: "When you protect any sector, you are shoring up sick companies and prolonging bad management." The steel industry has not, for the most part, used the breathing space offered by protection to modernize its plants. Instead, National Steel Corp. bought some savings and loan associations, and U.S. Steel borrowed $3 billion to acquire Marathon...