Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maximum, figures Dr. Wilson, the ice shelf covers 10 million square miles of ocean, and its white surface reflects so much sunlight that the earth's heat input is reduced by 4%. The earth's general temperature falls a few critical degrees, and ice sheets begin to grow larger in the Northern Hemisphere too. The bigger they get, the more solar energy they reflect back into space, and the colder the earth becomes...
...dymaxion"-vaguely compounded of "dynamic," "maximum" and "ion." Marshall Field copyrighted it in Fuller's name, and in the years to come Bucky turned it into what amounted to a personal trademark. Today he explains that it means the "maximum gain of advantage from the minimal energy input...
Slightly more useful information in the report concerned "manpower input." Because of the heavy work load an additional full-time appointment was made...
...department has begun to adopt some technological changes in the administration segment of its production function," he stated. "We are attempting to accumulate the information necessary for determining input-output ratios and other facts relevant to running an efficient business...
...burdens of composition. First, there was the matter of terminology: his field (economics) had no shortage of scientific words, which, since they represented the collected wisdom of the discipline, must be not only used but totally assimilated as well. Soon he was thinking in terms of maximized efficiency, input-output ratios, and consumer indifference curves. Second, there was the need to guard against vague language. On those occasions when he permitted himself a metaphor Herbert always added "so to speak" or "as it were" so that it would be clear that he was merely using a figure of speech...