Word: optimum
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...those who race, the motivation has a keener edge. "The sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll of the dice." And while the dice are in the air, anyone-for one brief Mittyesque moment-can be Bus Mosbacher, sailing out of Newport for the America...
Studying the Milky Way. Foremost among the problem regions to be studied under optimum conditions for the first time is the center of the earth's own galaxy. That portion of the Milky Way is only partially visible in the Northern Hemisphere for a few hours each night, and then only during summer months. In the Southern Hemisphere, the center of the galaxy moves directly overhead six months of the year. Moreover, the closest galaxies to the Milky Way-the Large and Small Magellenic Clouds, more than 160,000 light-years away, can be seen only from the Southern...
...fourth philosophical-political assumption masked as an objective economic conclusion relates to the Pareto optimum. At Pareto optimum conditions, nobody can be made "better off" without making another "worse off." When badly stated like this, without six chapters of complex graphs in back of it, it seems rather unimpressive. When recommended as the crowning achievement of the unregulated free market, it comes out as what it obviously is, a debatable political-philosophical conclusion: there should be no income redistribution, which would make someone else better off by making another worse off. The "natural" income distribution is willed by the market...
MANY COLLEGE students will use the services of a psychiatrist or psychologist during their undergraduate years, where such services are adequate and readily available. Delineation of the characteristics of students who are likely to seek psychological help can be useful to psychiatric and counseling services in planning for optimum care, both in terms of prevention and treatment. This paper-presents data on students who sought psychiatric help in college and compares them with students who did not receive such help...
Reston is not just an anomoly, but a much needed experiment in solving part of the problem which the city planner faces; how to help suburban areas handle their new functions. And Simon's wish to integrate industry, private homes, commerce, and recreation for optimum use by all classes is not different from the aims of the most technically ambitious planner...