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- noun Plural form of
sector .
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The weird part is that C64 disks have a variable number of sectors per track, and that there are 17 to 21 * 256-byte GCR sectors* in a C64 track, while there are always 9 * 512-byte MFM sectors* in a DOS track.
the-inbetween.com 2008
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Positive support of SFF from many sectors is eroding the views of the Ms. Chungs of the world, though we of course would like it to happen faster.
[Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010
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He needs to sit down with Nobel Prize economists and INVEST heavily in sectors that will grow future job.
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan 2009
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The results were positive across all sectors from the society to the individual: countries and individuals who live in countries with high union densities had a higher level of life satisfaction; union members reported being generally happier than non-union members by one-tenth; and the less fortunate who were union members had the highest improvement in their quality of life.
Akito Yoshikane: Labor Unions: The Key to Happiness? Akito Yoshikane 2010
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He called this phenomenon "a truly alarming spectacle, if we consider not only how extensively attacks are spreading but also their unheard-of numerical proportion, and the fact that they receive widespread legal approval and the involvement of certain sectors of health-care personnel."
Media 2009
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Indeed, certain sectors of the US economy will become slightly more competitive.
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One of the great appeals of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory in certain sectors is the fact that what it takes to fight the imagined threat (reduced trade, reduced economic growth, government controls on the economy, populist hammering of energy companies, micro-controls on individual decision-making) are exactly the things the socialists wanted to do before their schtick became tired.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Copenhagen Income Redistribution Conference 2009
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The regulation, or re-regulation of the financial sectors is a lose/lose proposition for the Republicans.
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We are also losing jobs in sectors which are lot less glamorous than IT.
India and the U.S., Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yet some forms of outright oppression have been so common in sectors of society that they are viewed as normative and such things as persecution of minorities needs to be addressed or we will never attain the goal of an equitable society.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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