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...intangible benefits, however, which deserve our most serious attention. It's too easy to talk of the opportunity costs of a year's "lost time" in the private sector and in higher education. But such considerations don't address the benefits of a national service in promoting a sense of duty to fellow citizens, in bringing together disadvantaged and advantaged in valuable work, and in fostering national unity transcending barriers of race, language, region, and class...
...American Brands had to be dropped to avoid having two cigarette makers among the 30. The Journal editors also wanted to shift the index away from smokestack industries, which are overrepresented in the elite group. McDonald's provided a golden opportunity and reflected the continuing growth of the service sector in the economy...
...health minister said the earthquakes hit especially hard in the medical sector, causing at least $250 million in damage and destroying nearly one-third of the capital city's hospital beds...
Although Harvard has played a major role in constructing the foundations for engineering technology over the past 30 years, it has not kept abreast of work done at other major universities and in the private sector, professors said. They added that as a result, students presently cannot receive adequate exposure to the field at this University...
...adopted a generally hands-off policy. Donald Regan, who served as Treasury Secretary during the President's first term, and Beryl Sprinkel, the Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, did not believe in taking an activist policy role. Strong advocates of free markets, both men believed that the private sector should be left alone to solve world economic problems. They opposed intervening in currency exchanges to halt the rise of the dollar. They also believed that the world debt crisis could be handled mainly between private banks and foreign countries, with a minimum of government help. Those policies alienated many...