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The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.
Sprinkel told conferees that the recent improvement in economic activity was not a `` temporary flash in the pan '' but the beginning of a substantial cyclical expansion that will carry the economy back to full employment levels and witness a renewal of our traditional growth pattern.
The unsatisfactory 1958-60 expansion, he said, was not due to inadequate growth forces inherent in our economy but rather to the adverse effect of inappropriate economic policies combined with retrenching decisions resulting from the steel strike.
A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..
Although the economy was booming in the region, the business struggled and Lincoln eventually sold his share.
The artists seem to have been dominated by geometrical pattern and order, and this was improved when classical art brought a greater freedom and economy.
At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.
Until independence, Armenia's economy was based largely on industry — chemicals, electronic products, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber and textiles ; it was highly dependent on outside resources.
An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.
It was founded between 650 and 625 BC by Gorgus, son of the Corinthian tyrant Cypselus, at which time its economy was based on farmlands, fishing, timber for shipbuilding, and the exportation of the produce of Epirus.
Their economy was based on farming, as well as hunting, fishing and gathering.
The economy was highly planned.
He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.
While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.
Andronikos Komnenos ' arrival was soon followed by a massacre of the Latin inhabitants of the city, who virtually controlled the economy of the city, with the massacre resulting in the deaths of 80, 000 " Latins ", i. e. Westerners.
Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.
The health of economy was closely bound up with the price of wheat.
It was not the first petroleum find in Alberta, but it was large enough to significantly alter the economy of the province ( and coincided with growing American demand for energy ).

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Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920s, the dislocations of the Depression, the common ethos of Materialism everywhere, all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People.
Wealth-producing primary sector jobs in the U. S. such as those in manufacturing and computer software have often been replaced by much lower paying wealth-consuming jobs such as those in retail and government in the service sector when the economy recovered from recessions.
US dollars were ubiquitous in Cuba's economy after its legalization in 1991, but were officially removed from circulation in 2004 and replaced by the convertible peso.
Eventually, Afghanistan went from a traditional economy to a centrally planned economy up until 2002 when it was replaced by a free market economy Gross domestic product has fallen substantially since the 1980s due to disruption of trade and transport as well as loss of labor and capital.
In the 1970s, turbofans replaced turbojets, improving fuel economy sufficiently that the last piston engined support aircraft could be replaced with jets, and making multi-role combat aircraft possible.
In the later part of the 18th century the manual labour based economy of the Kingdom of Great Britain began to be replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.
He was replaced because he failed to solve growing national crises, such as the worsening economy in 1969 – 70, the fear of another popular uprising as had occurred in 1953, and the disgruntlement between Moscow and Berlin caused by Ulbricht's détente policies toward the West.
In 1928, Stalin replaced the decade's New Economic Policy with a highly centralised command economy and Five-Year Plans, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization in the countryside.
Marx predicted the eventual fall of capitalism, to be replaced by socialism, yet since the late 20th century state socialism is in retreat, as the Soviet Union collapsed, and the People's Republic of China shifted towards a market economy.
Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practised in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.
In the past, it typically replaced the role of market in the capitalist economy with centralized state management of the economy, which is known as a command economy.
The result was economic chaos as the monetary economy collapsed and was replaced by barter and black marketeering.
Though Amer allowed some liberalization of the economy in order to appease Syrian businessmen, his decision to rig the elections of the National Union ( the single party which replaced the Ba ' ath ), with the help of Colonel Abdul Hamid Sarraj ( a Syrian army official and Nasser sympathizer ), sent Ba ' ath leaders into a frenzy.
Although the economy of the area was once based mainly on agriculture, the remaining production consists of several fields of strawberries or other small crops, which are gradually being replaced by new office development.
Resigning in January 1819 Jones was replaced by Langdon Cheves, who continued the contraction in credit in an effort to stop inflation and stabilize the Bank, even as the economy began to correct.
The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the UK pound sterling, the South African rand and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.
In medieval times, the wool trade was important in the town's economy, although this declined in the 18th century to be replaced by other industries such as brewing ; the town continues to be a major centre for the production of cider.
The " Lang Plan " advocated the repudiation of interest payments to overseas creditors until domestic conditions improved, the abolition of the Gold standard to be replaced by a " Goods Standard " where the amount of money in circulation was linked to the amount of goods produced, and the immediate injection of £ 18 million of new money into the economy in the form of Commonwealth Bank of Australia credit.

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Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.
Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.
The populations of the various districts, or other major divisions, were stratified by type of community ( rural, urban, mixed ) and, where appropriate, by ethnic affiliation and by type of economy.
To see how important this economy is, let us suppose that there are M operating variables at each stage and that the state is specified by N variables ; ;
Perhaps this would be sufficient to justify an economic boycott of an entire national chain in order, by threatening potential injury to its entire economy, to effect an alteration of the policy of its local stores in the matter of segregation.
-- `` The present recovery movement will gather steady momentum to lift the economy to a new historic peak by this autumn '', Beryl W. Sprinkel, economist of Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, predicted at the closing session here Tuesday of Investment Bankers Assn., California group, conference.
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.
The concerto's soloist, Hans Richter-Haaser, played with compensatory ease and economy, though without the consummate plasticity to which we had been treated on the previous evening by Herr Riefling.
After a decade of double-digit growth, Armenia's economy declined by 14. 4 percent in 2009.
According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.
Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes.
The necessity for defence from attacks ( for monastic houses tended to accumulate rich gifts ), economy of space and convenience of access from one part of the community to another, by degrees dictated a more compact and orderly arrangement of the buildings of a monastic coenobium.
Restaurants ( along with Chinese laundries ) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.
Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.
Alberta's economy is one of the strongest in Canada, supported by the petroleum industry and, to a lesser extent, agriculture and technology.
The city's economy is also centered on high technology, with several companies drawn to the area by the university's research and development money, and by its graduates.

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