In addition to the routine clinical work-up, the pathologist was asked to follow a sector-based reporting scheme, consistent with the radiologist PI-RADS report.
"People usually think more broadly, and then have to follow a large number of sectors and process lots of information".
But elsewhere the bust followed a private-sector binge: mortgage debt in Ireland and Spain; corporate borrowing in Portugal and again in Spain (see article).
Moreover, the type and characteristics of urban healthcare provided by private sector providers follow a similar pattern in all urban areas of the country.
Following a devastating public-sector strike, resulting in the loss of nearly 13m work days, the government agreed two years ago to replace the public sector's single salary structure with different wage scales for different jobs, including big pay rises for professions such as teachers, doctors and nurses.
The report on the crucial information technology sector follows a modestly optimistic overview of the global economy by the O.E.C.D., a Paris-based research and policy coordination body representing 30 leading industrialized countries.
Its profits for the quarter were 58% down on a year earlier, but they still amounted to $255m and the company gained market share.Dell Computer, the undisputed market leader in PCs, with sales equal to the combined total of the third- and fourth-largest companies in the sector, followed a similar strategy in 2001, with some success.
It also follows a wave of private-sector layoffs that the confederation of workers predicts will reach 150,000 -- 16percentt of the country's labor force -- by the end of the year.
Topological analysis of the US EIO network suggests that it exhibits small world properties for the unweighted case, and in the weighted case, the throughput of industry sectors follows a power-law with an exponential cutoff.
The service sector reading follows a similarly strong reading on American factories.
The service sector report followed a largely anticipated report from the Labor Department, which said the nation's unemployment rate held steady at 5.5percentt last month.
