Word: invert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparation of the table just described, which shows input-output relations in current money values is only the first step of Leonteif's analysis. The second step is to "invert the matrix," producing a table of coefficients that shows the amounts of every other product required to bring into existance a dollar's worth of any given product...
Rickover's Rakeover. With a seaman's instinct for omens, Commander Anderson early spotted his future. As a boy, in Bakerville, Tenn., he and a playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with...