Word: orders
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...basis is to increase productivity. Artificially and arbitrarily increasing the guards' wages is simply a transaction to transfer wealth from Harvard to its employees, thereby taking away the University's power to reinvest in new long-term capital goods, which in turn, could increase the productivity of Harvard in order to increase the real wages on a sustainable basis. Some might find the argument unconvincing simply because the concept of productivity is vague...
...basis is to increase productivity. Artificially and arbitrarily increasing the guards' wages is simply a transaction to transfer wealth from Harvard to its employees, thereby taking away the University's power to reinvest in new long-term capital goods, which in turn, could increase the productivity of Harvard in order to increase the real wages on a sustainable basis. Some might find the argument unconvincing simply because the concept of productivity is vague...
...bottom of Harvard's lineup struggled as Pepperdine took the fourth-, fifth-and sixth-place matches. However, the top of the order picked up the slack. At No. 1, Blake shook off any of the cobwebs that had formed during a week of limited practice and pasted No. 37 Gullet...
...night from F-117s were 500-pounders," grumbled a colonel, "and not the 2,000-pounders we have always used." Smaller bombs mean there's less certainty about destroying the target in one attack. And if the pilot has to come back, that increases the risk to him in order to lessen the risk to civilians on the ground--a kind of Disneyland idea of customer service that rankles many war fighters at the Pentagon. Some planes are returning to their bases carrying bombs because crews are under orders not to drop them if they don't have a clear...
Which makes it a bit more awkward for DreamWorks to spin the news that Spielberg and his two top executives, the married couple of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, are balking at taking on the expanded film production that DreamWorks feels its live-action studio needs in order to thrive. DreamWorks, which released six films in 1998, wants at least to double that output. But Spielberg and his partners will restrict themselves to overseeing no more than half a dozen films a year. Spielberg also will revive his previously dormant production-company banner, Amblin, for some films. His financial stake...