Word: sectors
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...These are extraordinary goals, and given India's population, ones of extraordinary reach. They would task the best-run nation in the world. But ask some Indian officials how the objectives are supposed to be achieved by a public sector that has not - let us put this charitably - always been known for its Prussian efficiency, and you will be told, in effect, "No problem." Past performance (as the prospectuses of mutual funds say) is no guarantee of future returns. Just because India's progress was for years strangled by red tape and corruption, there is no reason to think...
...senior lawmaker with Putin's ruling United Russia party and a former head of the anti-organized crime units in the Soviet Interior Ministry. He says the roots of the current difficulties can be traced to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when police officers went into the private sector en masse, fed up with low pay, corruption and the brazen violence sweeping the country. He estimates that 100,000 officers left the profession each year from 1991 to 2004 nationwide. "There are very few people anymore who work as police officers because it is their calling," Gurov says...
...competitors and allies are governed by the same stars and houses, that somewhere, deep in the recesses of outer space, Jupiter is slowly nudging me along regardless of how much I screw up. If only my e-recruiting Taurus friends knew that Neptune was ruling their professional tenth house sector, and things were looking up, I think they all would be a bit sunnier. Or if my best friend knew she was feeling low because—obviously—Mercury is in retrograde...
...that China and the U.S. "need to oppose and reject protectionism in all its manifestations in an even stronger stand," reinforcing China's view that recent U.S. tariffs pose a greater threat to the global economy than an undervalued renminbi, which has helped China prop up its exports sector even as global trade has slumped. (See pictures of China's economic expansion into Africa...
...called precarious workers mean that the relatively modest job losses registered officially may just mask a deeper vulnerability. "If the crisis lasts and the economy is slow to recover, German companies will have to begin major layoffs," says Scarpetta. "Every crisis is a moment of major restructuring, from one sector and skill set to another. Keeping unemployment rates down at all costs may just be delaying these inevitable changes...