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...vision devices, secure radios and electronic sensors to plant in remote airfields and along footpaths used by smugglers. The Customs Service in McAllen, Texas, has only one rubber raft to patrol a 170-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. Declares Silvestre Reyes, chief Border Patrol agent for the McAllen sector: "The crooks are better equipped than...
...midst of profound changes both in health insurance and in health-care delivery systems. Many of these changes increase health sector competition. Competition has many positive aspects; for example, it increases consumer choice and weeds out the less efficient. It is no wonder that Americans prize competition. But these benefits also involve costs: for example, potential declines in quality and segmentation of the insurance market and delivery system as subscribers try to disassociate themselves from those more likely to be sick...
...long-term profitability and growth. Restructuring's theme is "back to basics." That means, among other things, an end to the corporate ethos of expansion for expansion's sake. It spells farewell to the notion, always more imagined than real, of the corporation as a kind of private-sector welfare state, with unlimited perks and unshakable job security. It also involves frequently deep retrenchment, as U.S. corporations cut back on marginal operations, strip away unnecessary layers of management and staff and refocus their attention on proven areas of profitability. Says James Brown, an executive director of the Conference Board...
...manufacturing productivity -- hourly output -- has risen by an average of 3.8% annually over the past five years, compared with 1.5% in the '70s. But no such productivity improvement is yet evident outside of manufacturing. Says Treasury's Darman: "We have to make ourselves more efficient in the service sector...
...research is also important to "thenon-defense sector," said Whitesides. He hopesthat in the distant future the equipment will leadto applications in "corrosion, inhibition andcohesion" of surfaces