Defining the sector broadly, she also buys industrial companies that she thinks have a technological edge.
Making the right automatic undermines the value of voluntarism, which defines the sector and goes against the public mood – Lord Hodgson's own report identifies that the majority of the public oppose the idea of paying trustees.
Pew is a little more explicit in advocating for clean energy investments as a way to create more jobs—"Like all other sectors, the clean energy economy has been hit by the recession, but investments in clean technology have fared far better in the past year than venture capital overall"—which might explain why it defines the sector more narrowly.
In plenary sessions, APSCU officials made repeated reference to the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which defines the sector's access to taxpayer funds, and implored member schools to get involved with the trade association's "grassroots" efforts to lobby Congress.
We defined the sectors using categories designated as "personal health care" in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) accounting of NHEs, and in the case of payers, from the categories designated as "health insurance" [ 11] (Additional file 1: Table S1).
This is because the goods and services specific to the oral healthcare sector cannot be distinguished clearly within the current classification used to define the healthcare sector.
Forbes.com: How would you define the housewares sector? Bernard: It covers everything from a 99-cent plastic container for food storage up to a couple-hundred-dollar electrical appliance, such as a high-end coffee maker.
(6) We define the ordered sector as mathbb{S}=[underline{w}, overline {w}]times[underline{z}, overline{z}]=bigl{ (w, z)inmathcal {E}timesmathcal{E}: (underline{w}, underline{z})leq w, z)leq (overline{w}, overline{z} bigr}.
For the purpose of this study, we define the 'private sector Hib vaccine coverage' as the percentage of eligible birth cohort in a given state that received three doses of Hib vaccine in the private sector market.
However, with the severe slump of the telecommunications equipment industry and a failed attempt by Lucent to merge with Alcatel of France, the company was unable to attract the kind of stratospheric price that came to define the once highflying sector.
