Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surging, crinkled look of brain coral, providing a dream landscape, almost subaqueous, in malachite green, pink and blue, woven to gether by the twisting trees. A tense springiness seems to run through every shape, visible in the arabesques of a bush no less than in the lashing tail of the lion or the trampling feet of the horse Rakhsh...
...years has become less and less firmly anchored in the real economy; increasingly, the economy behaves as if it were indexed. What that means is that wage rates tend to chase prices, and, in turn, push up labor costs, which in turn, push up prices--a "dog-chasing own-tail" inertial process that, once it becomes embedded in the economy at a certain speed, is very hard to slow down. If yesterday wage rates were rising at 9 per cent, with trend productivity increasing at 1 per cent and therefore labor costs per unit rising at 9 minus...