Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Greek airport improvement may have happened in a roundabout way--and as a result the Clinton Administration may come under fire for trying to play politics with airline safety. Last February, White House aides tried to squelch a Transportation Department warning to American travelers about lax safeguards against terrorism...
If the Greeks have indeed fixed their airport problem, how then could a bomb have been put aboard the TWA jet? A terrorist could have flown from Athens to New York and tried to leave a bag with the bomb inside on the plane as he prepared to disembark. But...
On the other hand, the supply of money provided by television networks, cable stations and ticket buyers is expanding. "Team quality generates demand, and demand determines ticket prices. The better the team, the more intense the demand for a fixed number of seats. And that's why stars are worth...
Rounding out the five top earners in fiscal 1995 were David R. Mittelman, senior vice president for fixed income, $3,772,039; Jeffrey B. Larson, senior vice president for foreign equity, 1,466,022; and Robert G. Atchinson, senior vice president for equity, $1,047,090.
Oddly, the National Association of Manufacturers provides the pithiest summary of the limits-to-growth case that it opposes. The "conventional wisdom," says an N.A.M. statement, is that "potential growth is fixed at the rate of labor-force growth [currently around 1.2% a year] and the average annual increase in...