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There must be an "optimum degree of enforcement" from the point of view of the criminal monopoly. With no enforcement, either because enforcement is not attempted or because enforcement is infeasible, the black market could not be profitable enough to invite criminal monopoly (or not any more than any other market, legitimate or criminal). With wholly effective enforcement, and no collusion with the police, the business would be destroyed. Between these extremes there may be an attractive black market profitable enough to invite monopoly...
...year period. The girls listened through earphones to speech varying in speed from 450 to 930 w.p.m., and were asked to write down whatever they could understand from the tapes. Cramer didn't use any Harvard men in his testing. "I wanted to see what could be achieved under optimum conditions," he said. "Women have been shown to have a consistently higher verbal ability than men," who, he added quickly, "are usually better at math...
...optimum number of housing units which might be built on the Sachs Estate has not been agreed on by the "experts...
...Ferrari's Berlinetta Speciale, easily the hottest-looking machine on display, has the snub nose and cropped rear of the Le Mans-winning Ford GT and a three-place seat with the driver's spot in the middle for optimum visibility on the race track. Also, it can unwind its 325 h.p. engine to 180 m.p.h...
Though remaining silent about exact design details, Miller said that the general idea was to construct the front end so that it would, in case of a head-on collision, crumple and be shortened by 24 in. Through an optimum setup of framing, wheels, fenders, hood, engine and other components, Ford Safety Engineer Harold Brilmyer aims to "work out a sequential arrangement so that everything collapses in a prearranged form." This may sound like small comfort, but it could extend the duration of the typical collision from 90 milliseconds to 125 milliseconds, cut impact forces...