Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unemployment compensation has the advantage of mitigating economic ills with considerable immediacy. An unemployed worker is a man with a suddenly reduced income and purchasing power. An automatic stabilizer, compensation begins immediately when a worker loses his job and tends to maintain his purchasing power.
Skin grafts or organs transplanted from one human being to another will not "take" permanently unless donor and recipient are identical twins. Reason: any healthy mammal sets up antibody defenses against "foreign" protein. For treating burns and in plastic and reconstructive work, surgeons would be able to do much more...
"This is a slightly unusual request," says Dr. Wagner. "As far as I know, it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer. Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?"
¶ A step-up in the automatic annual hourly wage rate increase (now 2.5%) to a "noninflationary" 3.9% per year.
Man: Because I've got automatic transmission in the car.