Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accelerating price increases; they pushed some components of the old index, like new orders for durable goods, higher than the actual level of business activity would have warranted. For the past 2½ years, Commerce Department statisticians have been overhauling the index, calculating some components in terms of constant 1967 dollars to remove the effects of inflation, throwing out some old measures and substituting new ones that they consider more sensitive to coming business fluctuations. Among them: new orders for consumer goods and materials, and money supply. They feel that they now have a much more reliable measure...
...very places where he found his original inspiration. Government agencies in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran, seeking better ways to plan their new desert cities, want the Australian architect to re-establish in their lands the concept of a protective town with narrow streets, people in constant contact and no cars...
...Harvard, the total budget of the Athletics Department has remained constant during the past three years. Meanwhile, the costs of running the Department's programs have climbed dramatically. In addition, the department has faced demands for new programs from groups within the University...
...into a one-dimensional world of male physicality and insensitivity. The periodic eruption of a train into the placid Swiss countryside relentlessly hammers us with its tiresome commentary on Paul's mentality; rational, utilitarian, compartmentalized. Adriana is the classic female--equal shares of mysterious introspection, intuitive insight and the constant assertion of the spiritual over the physical. As she is about to make love with Paul for the first time, she drapes a black cloth on the window (it is day time) because, she tells him, he will not judge her only by her body, like most...
...failure. More vividly than older women in fiction, they express women's anger and self-hated and the feeling that there's no way out. Pain is the human condition, but more particularly, these books announce, the female condition... The women novelists who depict their plight find in it constant images of challenge aborted or safely contained: the general fate of female challenge...