Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warner Amex Cable Communications, Inc., one of the country's largest cable companies, which has 147 cable systems in 27 states. It is jointly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., and American Express Co. Said Lewis: "It is an appropriate time for me to return to the private sector. I have no political ambitions." Lewis' new job is likely to challenge all his administrative skills. Analysts believe that the company's prospects remain good, but the unexpectedly high cost of installing cable systems in its urban franchises have cut into revenues. Losses totaled nearly $20 million last year...
While income from such arrangements constitutes less than 5 percent of the University's total research budget, officials note a continuing trend towards such arrangements, as well as several new Harvard initiatives to attract funds from the private sector...
...past several years, a severe decline in federal funding for research has prompted universities to seek alternative sources of money primarily in the private sector. This new thrust to forge relationships between schools and industry, however, carries with it a potential threat to academic freedom. What educators most fear is that researchers will be diverted from the fundamental quest for knowledge to work only on projects resulting in profitable and marketable products...
...company. Of all members of the university community, the student especially ought to be working for himself or herself, and ought to be guided in research and trained in skills and techniques that are designed to produce a first-rate scholar, not profit for a company in the private sector...
Instead, he carried the war to the Lebanese capital. Israeli forces moved into the Christian sector of Beirut. They bombed Muslim-dominated West Beirut for most of the summer, contending that they were merely trying to flush P.L.O. guerrillas out of densely populated civilian areas. In what Begin called a "great, huge blow" to the P.L.O., the Israelis succeeded in driving more than 11,000 Palestinian fighters out of Lebanon, but at a terrible price: 462 Israeli soldiers had been killed, 2,218 had been wounded, and Israel remained caught in a military adventure that was tarnishing the nation...