The firms in question are in industries with varying degrees of competition, but all of them benefit from some of the Chinese government's plethora of industry- and sector-level tariff rebates and subsidies.
We wouldn't hesitate to offer our recommendations of investing in a second BD deck -- after all, you never know when you'll need one for travel or loan -- but there's a whole heap to choose from in the entry-level sector.
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The aim of this approach is to allow the private sector to bring a level of innovation to the delivery of the services.
Lower-level workers, such as secretaries, are usually better paid than their private-sector equivalents, whereas higher-level workers are worse paid.
But its PE ratio is running at about 26, which believe it or not is about mode-level for the sector.
He posited that U.S. emissions from the energy sector are at their lowest level since 1992, despite -- not thanks to -- government intervention.
The Philippine central bank proceeded to impose a 20% ceiling on banks' lending to the real estate sector -- a modest level by Asian standards.
Separately, a rise in new orders boosted the Chicago Business Barometer, a gauge of the U.S. manufacturing sector, to its highest level since March 2012, also trumping expectations.
In terms of academic results, inspectors found underachievement at GCSE level in this sector, with evidence that pupils are on courses for which they have "little realistic chance of success".
We took an informal poll of associates who are professionals in the mobile phone sector to assess the the level of their relationship with their smartphone, whether Apple, Google Android or RIM Blackberry.
The public sector shed 13, 000 jobs, mainly at the local level, but this was more than offset by the private sector.
At the enterprise level, the private sector is deploying technology to boost productivity and efficiency.
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There was some relief for the embattled construction sector, which saw its unemployment level fall 4.4%.
Company chairman Malcom Gourlay warned that public sector spending cuts would affect the level of work from educational customers.
For all we know, women may hold high-level positions in a sector that does not have many female employees overall.
In our analysis of the impact of Japan's demography, we have shown that the current level of private-sector gross savings is indeed higher than we would expect in equilibrium.
Corporate giants are also scrambling to find work for mid-level attorneys in the public sector.
Perhaps private sector growth would have been even weaker had public sector spending risen at a more normal level.
The U.K'.s coalition government remains concerned, and in some quarters, furious, about the level of remuneration in the sector.
But I think what he says also affects policies at the state and local level and in the private sector.
All the stimulus achieved was to save jobs in the public sector at the state and local government level, Zuckerman insisted.
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An inefficient commercial court system, a rigid labor code, bureaucratic red tape, and persistent low-level corruption keep the private sector from performing up to its full potential.
Thanks to Form PF, the burden of building the technology infrastructure to calculate and format aggregated fund-level security, market and sector exposures, and other non-financial risks, has been addressed by fund administrators.
Like other Big Box stores, all the companies in the Office Supplies category have cut back: closed stores, process re-engineered operations and, like every other sector that was unable to find some level of emotional engagement to hang their brand on, price-promoted, price-promoted, and then did more price-promoting.
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In what the researchers said is the largest project to examine leadership and stress, the study recruited 148 leaders and 65 non-leaders from the Boston metro area and from a Harvard executive education program designed for senior-level officials in the public sector, which included members of the military.
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Despite such successes, China's private sector as a whole does not enjoy a level playing field.
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We must fight the narcotics scourge at every level, but especially the agricultural sector.
But it also has 13% of its assets in the industrial sector and 9% in the technology sector, both of which have a greater level of volatility than the broader market.
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It's a risky sector, in the sense that the demand level in much of it, in any given year, is at the whim of taxpayers--and taxpayers are not in a spending mood these days.
Despite such warnings, Greece and some on the European Commission level still believe in a strong national sector.
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