In Japan, however, the government has taken the lead in third-sector projects.
Government was the third largest job-cutting sector in July behind retail, where employers like Borders announced plans to cut a total of 11, 245 jobs.
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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.
With its sales in the atomic-power sector falling by a third since the Fukushima accident, India "would be a major focus of business if regulatory clearance is given by the government, " a spokesman said.
The prospect of extra, profitable, non-life and third-sector business could make all the difference.
The utility-funded Center for Energy Development has estimated that a third of the existing 200, 000 power sector jobs could be open over the next 5-to-10 years.
Third, everyone - including the private sector - has now had plenty of time to prepare for this and make their contingency plans.
The message has sunk in in Bahrain, where a third of finance-sector employees are female, and in Kuwait, where, including property, the figure rises to 40%.
Also of note, in the last two years the construction sector has gained nearly 300, 000 jobs, with one-third of that gain occurring in the last four months.
Underlying this is a more fundamental confusion about what third-sector projects are for: the public interest or private profit?
Halliburton ( HAL - news - people ) (HAL, 29) and Baker Hughes (BHI, 47) , respectively the sector's second- and third-largest firms.
The third program driving sector consolidation is about as far removed from the world of stealthy fighters and gee-whiz jammers as you can get, and still be in the defense business.
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"The plan calls for a low level of support from the council during 2013-14 to allow the staff to explore the opportunities for handing over the centre to a third sector organisation, " Mr Hearn said.
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Bradesco is Brazil's largest private-sector bank and the country's third-largest financial services company.
And third, many of the cuts are tiny by private-sector standards.
Third, private-sector purchasers will establish the value of the loans and securities purchased under the program, which will protect the government from overpaying for these assets.
Last month, the ministry of home affairs at last published some guidelines for third-sector projects.
Responding for the government, Health Minister Earl Howe agreed that the present tax arrangements are "one potential barrier" to third-sector provision of health services.
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Third, if the bailout loan ranks ahead of existing private-sector loans to the Spanish government, there is a risk that Spain will end up paying more to borrow from conventional commercial sources - which is precisely the opposite of what it wanted.
Interest rates hit 21.5%, a deep recession ensued with unemployment reaching 11%, the agricultural sector slid into depression, a bubble burst in the energy sector, the real estate industry collapsed, and third-world debt burdens nearly brought down the mega banks.
Third, we do not fully take into account the fast-growing service sector.
Total outstanding bank debt, including mortgages, in Brazil comes to 35% of annual gross domestic product, compared with 220% in the U.S. Laidler recommends buying Unibanco, Brazil's third-largest private sector bank.
Russia's private-sector creditors have agreed to write off more than a third of the debt, swapping the rest for long-dated, low-interest Eurobonds.
We note that near-term U.S. debt downgrade-driven worries could dampen demand, but the third quarter is typically the least important for the technology sector.
Of the 1, 289 people who presented themselves as homeless in the county to the year ending in April, almost a third were either youngsters who had left the family home or short-term tenants kicked-out by private sector landlords.
AMD, which warned of a decline in second-quarter sales, dove 11.2% and dragged much of the tech sector along with it, as fellow chipmaker Intel slumped 2.3% to be the third-worst performer in the Dow Jones industrial average.
The only exception is the third-ranked San Francisco- Oakland-Fremont metropolitan statistical area, which has logged 21% growth in this sector since 2001, while expanding the proportion of such jobs in the local economy to nearly twice the national average.
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Then it's back to government legislation, with the third reading of the Public Service Pensions Bill - the startlingly low-key measure to cut the cost of public-sector pensions.
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