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...textbook had the answer: While increased productivity may produce short-term joblessness, there is no evidence that rising productivity leads to increased long-term unemployment. As an economy progresses technologically, it creates new industries, new consumer goods and new services which absorb the jobs lost to more efficient, older industries. America's productivity has grown twelve-fold in the past century, but our employment rate is certainly not one-twelfth of what it used...
...violence, agrees with the study's big-picture approach. "Anytime you give a name of a program, it lends itself to endless quibbling," he says. "The question is not what any one program does or doesn't do. The question is, What is it that large communities absorb over long periods of time...
...does the body digest and absorb triglycerides but not a sucrose polyester such as olestra? Both types of molecule, explains P&G chemist Ron Janacek, are too large to pass unaltered through the mucous membrane of the small intestine and into the bloodstream. With triglycerides, an intestinal enzyme known as lipase acts as a kind of molecular scissors, fitting into slots between the fatty acids and snipping them apart. But when there are too many fatty acids clumped too close together, as happens with olestra and other types of sucrose polyester, these slots are concealed and the enzyme cannot...
...youngest of three sons of a State Department official, Greg was on the move as a kid, in Washington, then in Beirut, where he literally dodged bullets by day and listened to bomb blasts at night. "I was just at that age when I could absorb it all without fearing my own mortality," he recalls. In Athens as a teenager, he was host on a show on Armed Forces Radio before returning to the States and attending the University of Arizona. He worked for the deadly B-movie studio Empire Pictures, flunked a veejay audition at mtv, then became...
...have to be able to defend programs and be willing to absorb some of the hits." Carnesale said "I believe these pressures will increase...