Word: optimum
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...price that farmers collect for their crops and livestock, and what they pay for the goods and services that they use. Parity harks back to Washington's Depression-era effort to raise farm prices to their level in 1910-14, which farmers then remembered as "good times." The optimum parity is 100, the theoretical level that prevailed in pre-World War I days. Today, parity is running at a relatively high mark of 80. Considering that farm productivity has changed drastically in six decades, the notion of fixing farm prices to achieve a certain parity point is about...
...harshly criticized in October for blasting a quarterback on the football squad, a quarterback whom I felt was not giving Harvard an optimum performance. I hold no personal animosity toward him as an individual and I did not seek to main him psychologically. But after the frustration of watching performance after unsuccessful performance, I felt that a change could not detract from an already meager athletic production. And I wrote what I felt, hoping as did so many other fans, that the end result would be a better team performance for Harvard...
...PURPOSES I have just described may strike some readers as rather obvious. Nevertheless, it is reasonably clear that neither the curriculum nor the formal process of educational development and reform is organized in optimum fashion to further these objectives...
Zero population growth is the ultimate goal of family-planning groups concerned with the implications of spiraling overpopulation. This marks the first time the U.S. has reached the optimum figure; given the dire Malthusian forecasts advanced by many scientists and sociologists, that is an encouraging sign. It does not mean, however, that population growth will level off significantly in the near future. Since there are now so many young child-producing families in U.S. society, the maintenance of the 2.1 figure really means that the population will level off at around 280 million...
...California, Mazda is already the fourth-biggest-selling import, ahead of Fiat and Volvo. U.S. sales have grown from almost nothing in 1970 to an estimated 60,000 this year, and are expected by company officers to at least double next year. Mazda officials expect the operation to reach optimum size in 1975, with 655 dealers selling 300,000 cars annually. That could well put Mazda among the top five car sellers, about even with American Motors...