Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past ten years, Harvard's Economic Research Project has been perfecting a unique analytical tool developed by Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. Input-output or inter-industry analysis, as the tool is known, evolved from a search by Leontief for a way to apply economic theory to a factual analysis of the entire national economy...
...spend too much time "brushing away the little man who kept swinging on, and thereby obscuring, the airspeed indicator." The unanimous verdict of psychologists: the space pilot must have an abundant "sensory input" as well as work to do. He must be able to talk to the ground whenever he is awake, ask "Where am I? How am I doing?", and get reassuring answers. He must have music wherever he goes, perhaps a TV screen on which he can see where he is in relation to the earth...
...Input: hot news or modification thereof; anything from a new bow tie to a fresh rumor...
...rain (if rain falls) will carry some of the deadly dust down the rivers to the sea. At last the interdict will be raised, and people can go about their ordinary business, avoiding dangerous areas and conscious that even in the safer places they are still receiving a considerable input...
Lillehei and Richard Varco clamped off the great veins carrying the blood toward the heart, inserted a tube, and led the blood out to the input tube of the dog's lung. Inside its cylinder the lung was kept supplied with fresh oxygen. As the boy's blood coursed through the lung tissue, it gave up carbon dioxide and picked up fresh oxygen. Then it fell to the bottom of the cylinder. From the pool that formed there, another tube led the blood to a pump which boosted it back to Patient Richmond's aorta-the great...