Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever policy is adopted, it will not change the course of the economy much in the first six months or so of 1975. The pattern for early next year, says Eckstein, is "set in concrete" by trends already well under way. The latter part of the year, of course, will be decisively affected by policy actions made now. Still, assuming some easing of policy soon, the shape of next year's economy seems fairly clear-if dismal-to the Board of Economists. Their forecast in detail...
...with statistics to try to dispel the notion that the family exercises inordinate behind-the-scenes power. Not only could Rocky's critics not dispute Dilworth's bewildering rush of figures, at times they could hardly keep up with them. "There is no grand design or overall pattern," Dilworth assured the committee. "The family members are simply investors. The aim and hope of the advisers is, in a most difficult and uncertain world, to achieve over time a reasonable total return for our clients...
...validity of the historical flashbacks derives largely from what they say, by inference, about Michael. The old man, encountering in New York's Little Italy the very same pattern of extortion and vendetta that he escaped in Sicily, began by doing his own killing and taking his own risks. He did so not on the basis of cold calculation but hot-blooded need. One does not exactly admire him, but one at least finds him explicable, entirely human. Michael...
Control Chip. Laid out in 120 horizontal and 120 vertical lines, these components form a graph-paper-like pattern in which there are 14,400 points of intersection. At each intersection, there are two transistors and one capacitor. If a signal is sent to a particular intersection, the components there will light up the layer of phosphorescent material immediately above them. That creates a dot that can glow with varying intensity. If a number of intersections are triggered simultaneously, an image is formed. In their current prototype, the Westinghouse engineers form images by using an external switching device to feed...
...make profits grow. These problems, according to Rothschild, "are based in historical change, and may be compared to the troubles of other industries in other times...most particularly to those of the railroads and textile mills in late-Victorian Britain. The fate of these businesses show a similar pattern: innovation, excitement, inflow of capital, rapid growth, market saturation, demand creation, decreasing productivity and return on capital, a fixation on policies of the past." She might add: subsequent resentment among workers and consumers, competition from abroad, desperate searches for new markets, failure to meet domestic challenges, and eventual collapse. Roths child...