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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Office Of Public Sector Information, the
private sector
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pay increases in the private sector
public sector
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a job in the public sector
the commercial sector (= the business part of the economy )
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The commercial sector sponsors sport.
the corporate sector (= the area of business involving big companies )
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The UK corporate sector is highly competitive.
the leisure industry/sector
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The leisure sector has experienced phenomenal growth in recent years.
the voluntary sector (= voluntary work and the people involved in it )
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What is the role of the voluntary sector in sport?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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Of additional interest are increases in the demand for agricultural products from other producers within the agricultural sector .
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Nationally, unequal terms of trade between the agricultural and industrial sectors serve to subsidize manufacturing.
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Drought has caused further problems in the agricultural sector , both for domestic consumption and exports.
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It is relevant to the agricultural sector and there are several references to environmental considerations in the draft proposal.
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The problems faced by the agricultural sector were offset by continued growth in the non-traditional manufacturing areas such as garments.
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This shifted the terms of trade between the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in favour of the former.
commercial
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One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated, it is difficult to limit its growth.
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This is achieved by professional workshops where students working in groups address problems taken from industrial, commercial and public sector organizations.
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The government believes that the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision.
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If local authorities are to provide less, then the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors will need to provide more.
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The commercial sports sector consists of the sports goods sector and the sports services sector.
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Although some of this goes to the government and voluntary sectors , most of it goes to the commercial sports sector.
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Although the voluntary sector still possesses a relative production cost advantage over the commercial sector, this advantage is narrowing.
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A member of the mineral trade association is being sought to ensure that there is also adequate linkage with the commercial sector .
corporate
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There will be no outcry from the corporate sector about the disarray in the accountancy profession.
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Hence, everyone is financially vulnerable and insecure except those close to the center of the corporate sector .
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As remarked earlier, to treat the corporate sector as acting perfectly competitively is a particularly unsatisfactory assumption.
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Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.
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This extreme version of the distrust of government has often been manipulated by the corporate sector to block passage of government regulation.
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So we are now getting it back into the corporate sector .
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For example, the modelling of the corporate sector , particularly allowing for imperfect competition, is likely to pose formidable problems.
different
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This study examines the relationships between different sectors of the local economy, especially the nature and permeability of sector boundaries.
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In 1997, find opportunities in different sectors .
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Was it universally backward or were there variations between different sectors and branches of industry?
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The major techniques Different public sector organizations adopt different accounting practices.
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Tradeoffs between different sectors of the economy have also become more expensive and more painful in their consequences.
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Physical frailty and disability varies across the different sectors , being least in public residential homes and highest in a hospital long-stay population.
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Discussion Unbiased estimates of dependency levels in the different sectors can be achieved only by high enumeration and response rates.
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But, the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors .
financial
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Most of the damage was again done in the financial sector , where worries about scandals and the recession abound.
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The financial sector prepared itself for full deregulation and open competition with foreign institutions.
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In the first six weeks of this year, 10,500 redundancies were announced in the United Kingdom financial sector .
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Thursday's edition contains a mixture of jobs in science, computing, technology, and the financial and business sectors .
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But it is also the case that the financial sector has encouraged people to borrow more money.
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The long slow process of deregulating the financial sector in fundamental ways is also coming unstuck.
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However, the company believes it is also one of the largest outsourcing contracts in the financial services sector .
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The same dominance of traditional companies was seen in the financial services sector .
independent
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The independent record sector barely existed, and recording was the concern only of established studios.
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So where does this leave the independent sector ?
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Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . 4.
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We shall continue to encourage the development of childcare arrangements in the voluntary and independent sectors .
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State schools, she declared, had much to learn from the independent sector .
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The lack of strong leadership in the independent sector reflected the absence of any new producer talent.
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A third priority raised is contracting with the independent sector .
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It didn't, but it is almost exclusively an independent sector these days.
industrial
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The programme has not recognised the vital role that chemistry plays across most industrial sectors .
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The prospects in the process heat industrial sector are approximately as good as in the boiler industrial sector.
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For example, employment in plants in a given industrial sector could halve while productivity tripled.
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She will concentrate on securing and managing opportunities in the retail, leisure, office and industrial sectors .
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Unemployment is rising, with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 percent this year.
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Agriculture has also provided the expanding industrial and tertiary sectors with their labour force.
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Huge industrial sectors built up in the 70s and 80s-including petroleum, telecommunications and automobiles-will be especially vulnerable.
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Within the All-Share companies are allocated to 39 industrial sectors .
informal
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The Right had recognized the informal sector .
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The informal sector More often than not community care means care by families - especially nuclear families.
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The term informal sector has become widely used.
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For example, of those who need help with shopping 85 percent receive this from the informal sector .
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What are the characteristics of the informal sector ?
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Beyond this universal benefit lie the discretionary sources of help from the informal and formal sectors of welfare.
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Linked to this, is the absence of foreign ownership within the informal sector , the entrepreneurs and pedlars are local people.
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In terms of the size of the contribution, then, it is the informal sector which is the mainstay of community care.
large
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A large service sector and a small manufacturing sector inhibit growth in the economy.
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In many of the large public sector industries, major investments in ReD are a relatively new phenomenon.
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Though not large , this sector of the church is qualitatively important.
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Sport is not the largest sector of the leisure industry, but it is among the fastest growing.
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Second, the development of advanced capitalism produced both a large oligopolistic business sector and a large oligopolistic labour union movement.
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Yet a large public sector appeared to be an almost inevitable part of the modern economy.
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Despite high unemployment in some areas there were large openings in sectors such as the electronics and engineering industries in the south.
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Third, a large public sector aids economic decline since it does not create wealth whereas the private sector does.
manufacturing
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Several of the issues discussed have implications for the manufacturing sector .
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The weak domestic manufacturing sector is reeling too: 150 factories closed last year, laying off 30,000 workers.
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It is still too early, however, to predict that recovery is under way in the manufacturing sector .
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Such expenditures create new barriers to competition and serve to concentrate service industries, just as many manufacturing sectors have experienced.
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The ultimate beneficiaries of these programmes are employers, in all disciplines and in both the manufacturing and service sectors .
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It is particularly keen to help the manufacturing sector , which has been decimated over the past 12 years.
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Is he further aware that since 1979, 2 million of our fellow citizens have lost their jobs in the manufacturing sector ?
monetary
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It does not disappear from the monetary sector .
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Its function as banker to the government and to the monetary sector .
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As we have seen above, discount houses and other members of the monetary sector have substantial short-term funds lent to each other.
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Firstly, that the monetary sector can expand its assets and liabilities up to a limit imposed by its available reserves.
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Under the 1979 and 1987 Banking Acts, a monetary sector was defined.
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We now consider the sector which comprises institutions other than those in the monetary sector.
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The monetary sector now comprises those institutions subject to the Bank's supervisory powers under the 1987 Banking Act.
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The upper graph shows the economy's initial general equilibrium position in the real and monetary sectors .
other
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Second, architects were not permitted to form joint practices with other sectors of the building industry.
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The other significant sector is Mechanical engineering, with Grampian exports amounting to 17% of the national figure.
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In 1989/90, that trend continued, but growth also occurred in all other sectors .
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In many other sectors of low pay, however, the level of pay is reflected in low productivity.
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However, this settlement appeared to encourage workers in other sectors .
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Hitherto the work in schools, as in other sectors , has concentrated on the retrieval of information.
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The need to become confident in one's knowledge about other phases and sectors of education can create stress.
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But, in the policy on nationalities, hypocrisy was no more extreme than in other sectors of policy.
personal
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The importance of building society deposits as assets of the personal sector is very clear.
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But an equally significant problem may well be the behaviour of the personal sector - people.
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However, these developments are likely to take time to feed through into lower corporate liquidations and personal sector mortgage defaults.
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Loans are used to meet the financial needs of the business and personal sectors when cash expenditure exceeds cash income.
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Their business now is to provide banking and financial services to the corporate as opposed to personal sectors .
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We shall also study company sector decisions in relation to capital spending and personal sector decisions in relation to savings.
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Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years.
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First, to study in great detail the take-up by the personal sector of National Savings.
private
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Going back into the private sector I was very keen to become a pluralist.
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Yet we know that monopoly in the private sector protects inefficiency and inhibits change.
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He is convinced that the private sector is interested.
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This increase was exclusively confined to the private sector which recorded a massive 115 percent increase in the number accommodated.
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My response is, he is not working in the private sector and he is not working any harder than I am.
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These views stress the difficulty of harmonizing essentially private sector norms with traditional public sector concepts and constitutional requirements.
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So you need the school system, you need government agencies, and you need the private sector .
public
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We need to look elsewhere, therefore, to understand how public sector auditing differs from private sector auditing.
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Ronald Reagan often argued that by cutting public sector spending, we could liberate voluntary efforts from the oppressive arm of government.
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Beyond the public sector , the cave becomes increasingly difficult, and is accessible only to experts.
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The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector .
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But the £1.7 billion cross-London Crossrail line would be reconsidered as a possible joint venture between the public and private sectors .
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In other words, the decline in profits preceded rather than followed the expansion of the public sector as regards both employment and expenditure.
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What conclusions should we draw as feminists concerning housing policy in the public sector , and what demands should we make?
retail
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It certainly has in other retail sectors .
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The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector .
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Rising capital growth also helped the retail sector retain its high return of 10.9 percent, again with rentals holding steady.
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Just because you shop at the local indoor mall does not make you an expert on the retail sector of the economy.
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If this trend continues, building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector . 2.
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Specialty retailers' weakness reflected the widespread problems throughout the retail sector .
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The one buoyant retail sector has been food, but few department stores sell much of that.
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There was no respite for the beleaguered retail sector .
voluntary
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But although he learnt such skills as writing feasibility studies, he soon tired of life in the grant-aided voluntary sector .
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The contracting culture should mean greater opportunities for voluntary sector providers, but Mussenden identifies problems.
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If local authorities are to provide less, then the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors will need to provide more.
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Weisbrod argued that two factors are particularly relevant to the stimulation of voluntary sector activity.
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This means that if the voluntary sector does not take action, virtually nothing gets done.
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In the voluntary sector , the diversity is even more striking.
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Also included are summaries which discuss particular experiences from many areas of the voluntary sector .
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In practice this is rarely achieved by health services and local authorities and almost never includes private and voluntary sectors .
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banking
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There are two important distinctions to be made in the type of business done in the banking sector .
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Sydney: Continued activity in the banking sector helped the All Ordinaries index to close 7.4 points higher at 1,743.4.
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It is responsible for ensuring the smooth working of the banking sector and other financial institutions.
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If this trend continues, building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector . 2.
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It is clear that for the banking sector as a whole, foreign currency business predominates.
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The figures also show the fact that the growth of foreign currency business has been primarily located in the wholesale banking sector .
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The initial increase in liquidity from the sale of government securities to the banking sector is given by item 1.
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It will be seen that the bulk of the funding for the discount market comes from banking sector institutions.
business
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In the business sector , the users' needs approach to accounting theory has been adopted in a number of authoritative statements.
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Wilson noted that California has been adding more manufacturing jobs, despite a nationwide decline in this business sector .
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Geographical organisations would still operate the railway, but their role was to supply train services to the business sectors .
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Operational functions have been entirely subsumed into the business sectors .
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This has made possible completely new systems of communications, command, and control within the business sector .
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Almost every business sector lacked specialist and well-qualified staff.
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During his budget speech Acharya also announced plans to privatize much of the business sector .
service
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Sceptical, I quickly learnt, is not considered an asset in the low-wage service sector .
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Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.
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A three year programme of four linked projects will investigate small services sector firms in five types of local economy in Britain.
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Jobs in technological fields generally receive higher salaries than jobs in the human services sector .
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Another irony is that the service sector needs inflation.
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Real income growth is rising, but the number of high-paying jobs is shrinking with expansion of the service sector .
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Again the gains were mainly in the service sector: factory jobs fell by 112,000, 90,000 of those in car companies.
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The sheer scale of the service sector has made it the focus for attack by the proponents of the de-industrialisation thesis.
state
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Jobs in the state sector are allocated by examination, but in reality the system is riddled with nepotism and clientism.
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The changes in the state sector before the 1980s have occurred in a relatively piecemeal fashion.
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Little of the banking industry remains in the state sector .
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Preobrazhensky attempted to define some optimum rate of primitive socialist accumulation for the state sector in an abstract manner.
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The state sector could, if it wished, make a good deal more use of voluntary help.
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Teachers in state schools must adopt some of these selling techniques if history is to flourish in the state sector .
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They legislate from a distance and don't trust their own children to the state sector .
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Average income in the private sector is probably about three times that in the state sector, but no one knows for sure.
technology
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Of the three information technology sectors telecommunications services was pack leader with 7.7% turnover growth and 13.1% median pre-tax growth.
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Much of the technology sector feels about the same way these days.
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Healthy results from Yahoo!, the internet sector leader, failed to lift the gloom in the technology sector.
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In addition to investor skittishness over the impeachment threat, the technology sector plunged for the third consecutive day.
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The technology sector has been caught out once and is determined not to be so again.
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Nielsen Media Research, provides information services for broadcasters; and Gartner Group, provides advisory services in the technology sector .
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Several analysts said the correction that has rocked the technology sector since the summer may finally be near an end.
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Stocks sold off sharply amid fears of disappointing earnings in the technology sector as well as continued concerns over the budget stalemate.
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manufacture
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The number of firms in the manufacturing sector has been so far taken as given.
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But in fact, most of the dislocation is still occurring in the manufacturing sector .
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First, consider the case where the integrated 2 x 2 world economy can accommodate R firms in the manufacturing sector .
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A reading above 50 % indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector and a reading below 50 % indicates a contraction.
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Starting salaries and annual earnings in the manufacturing sector usually were somewhat higher.
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Durable goods, food processing and textiles, much of it for export, led the manufacturing sector .
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Namely the number of firms in the manufacturing sector is given for every country.
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An index reading below 50 means the manufacturing sector is shrinking.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the private sector
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Private sector housing is just too expensive for low-income families in the city at the moment.
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Increasingly, researchers are seeking funds from the private sector.
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The government is now turning to the private sector for alternative ways of dealing with the country's transportation problems.
the public sector
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Private sector pay increases were again above the rate of inflation.
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recent disturbances in the city's Christian sector
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The growth in the number of home computers has boosted the electronics sector .
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The main source of work here is public sector employment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An extra £750m will be used before the end of 1992/93 to buy up some empty properties in the owner-occupied housing sector .
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Because of the wide range of problems that the public sector faces there will be different approaches to planning in different situations.
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In 1979, 32 percent of dwellings in Great Britain were in the public sector .
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Only after that would they recruit from the private sector .
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Students have been placed throughout the United Kingdom in both the public and private sectors.
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The high gas prices and long lines were prolonged by government interference in the private sector .