Second, it is hard for sector programs to work with public systems developed for the high employment days of the '90s, which provide short-term resume and interview prep and focus on immediate job placement, not training.
As foreign competitors drive hard into this sector, that lifeline is being snatched away.
Subsidies for a hard-hit export sector, say, seem to make sense as a response to the global downturn.
The predictions injected more gloom into a sector already hard-hit by earnings disappointments over the last few weeks.
The credit crunch hit the industrial sector particularly hard, given its dependency on trade credit for inputs and subsequent exports.
Productivity in the public sector is hard to measure and often poor.
French state-owned savings banks generate a return on equity of 2%, which makes it hard for private-sector rivals to achieve their 15-18% targets.
But recession and deflation have bitten hard: private-sector wages have fallen some 20% in the past three years, and overt unemployment now stands at about 17%.
Homeland security professionals at all levels of government and in the private sector are hard at work to increase security in your community, state and across the nation.
On Wednesday, the airline sector fell hard as oil prices rose, although though shares of Midwest Air Group kicked up 5.3% on word of a higher bid for the company from AirTran Holdings.
Those structured products have fallen on hard times as the mortgage sector sinks deeper into crisis.
He has worked hard in the clean energy sector since he retired from Edison.
Recession fears were exemplified by the transportation sector, whose hard fall Thursday was led by trucking company Con-way.
These are assets like large stadiums, parking structures, convention centers and other hard assets that the private sector should have financed in the first place.
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The housing sector also fell hard on the Friday morning's announcement.
Triggered by a warning Tuesday after the close from Equinix, the entire cloud computing sector sold off hard, trapping greedy longs that had chased overvalued stocks higher.
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Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004 and the eurozone in 2007, but its banking sector was hit hard by the financial crisis and the eurozone crisis that followed.
The auto sector was hit hard in the downturn, but as it comes off of its bottom, companies like DealerTrack, which deals with improving the efficiency of getting credit for car sales, will benefit, McPherson said.
Earlier this year, the government launched a new dollar auction system, which complements existing state-run currency channels, in a bid to pump more hard currency into the private sector, but economists have so far questioned how effective the mechanism will be in satisfying demand.
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In my opinion, the U.S. financial sector has been given a beating of our lifetime, and it is hard to imagine anything more crippling than what the sector has already gone through.
And the private sector may find it hard to push through another tough round of pay restraint.
In addition to regulatory reform, we need to take a hard look at how the private sector governs itself.
But equally, he says that there will not be profits in Newtrack, so it is hard to see why the private sector will take risks either.
Its borrowing binge in the past few years (India's overall fiscal deficit is approaching a tenth of GDP) has crowded out the private sector and made it hard for the central bank to cut interest rates.
For some, that is another reason to take this first estimate with an extra dose of salt: service sector output is especially hard to measure accurately, even without all these special factors being thrown into the mix.
That is because private sector companies actually try very hard to have good security programs.
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The impact of its success is hard to measure, but lately this sector has been going full steam ahead.
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