Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door to the "party. "In the literature of our synod with respect to the question of the dance," said the committee in a resolution before the conference, "we found quotations of theologians and conferences as far back as Chrysostom and the Council of Laodicea [ probably 4th century] with constant and consistent warnings against the dangers [of dancing]." But through the years there has also been a minority report. The committee conclusion: If, after consideration, a Lutheran group finds social dancing "in accord with its objectives and to the best Christian interests of its members ... it may permit the same under...
...faster, obeying Newton's second law: An unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate in the direction of the force . . . When the engine burns out, the rocket continues upward under the control of Newton's first law: . . . A body in motion continues to move at constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. As it rises, it slows and curves because an unbalanced force, the earth's gravitation, keeps pulling at it in obedience to Newton's law of gravity: Each particle of matter attracts every other particle with...
...counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have been if the G.N.P. had been measured in 1957 dollars. The constant-dollar G.N.P. has been computed back to 1947. By comparing the regular G.N.P. with the G.N.P. in constant dollars, economists will be able to tell at a glance how much real change has occurred in the total volume of production in the postwar period, how much apparent change was just...
...which the economy's ups and downs are traced. But it adds greatly to economists' understanding of what takes place in and before recessions and recoveries. For example, after the 1953-54 recession, U.S. prices rose only 1½% for four quarters; in that time both constant-dollar and current-dollar G.N.P. climbed sharply. For the next eight quarters, from mid-1955 to mid-1957, prices jumped around 6%; in that time the constant-dollar G.N.P. leveled off (see chart). The economy was barely expanding at all, though the current-dollar G.N.P. soared to a new high. When...
Warren's humor, and his ability to suffer in an heroic and almost appalling quiet, are noted by Lanman. The Sanskrit scholar once joked with Warren about the latter's trouser knees which were frayed owing to his constant kneeling. Warren answered, "Ah, but when Saint Peter sees those knees, he'll say, "Pass right in, sir, pass right...