public sector. Definition. The part of the economy concerned with providing basic government services. The composition of the public sector varies by country, but in most countries the public sector includes such services as the police, military, public roads, public transit, primary education and healthcare for the poor.
Mr. Truman's Balcony. Irritated by the rejection of his West Wing expansion, in 1948, Truman decided to add a balcony to the South Portico at the second-floor level using money already allotted for White House maintenance.
Al Goreâs Golden Years. The almost president has become the ultimate Davos Man, a moral entrepreneur and richer than Mitt Romney. The house in Nashville is gleaming white, with symmetrical wings and four twenty-foot-high Victorian columns. Under the soaring portico stands Al Gore, dressed in his casual uniforma button-down blue dress shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots. This is Goreâs White House, a 10,000-square-foot mansion he and Tipper renovated in 2007.