Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have nothing to fear (from communism) so long as we come to understand the nature of our own culture and remain free to estimate coolly the forces which account for the virulent vitality of Communism in certain quarters of the earth," he stated...
...There is a crying need for a few basic studies dealing in detail with the whole economy," Waugh stated. The machine, he continued, will enable us to make such extensive analysis because for the first time it will be possible to take into account the thousands of variables that influence the economy...
...arrive at goals which are "feasible to reach," he said. The economist emphasized that accurate and detailed statistics are not enough to determine a good set of goals for the economy. In a democracy of free people the citizens determine such goals. In so doing they taken into account factors such as the amount and kind of work they prefer and standards of health and diet prevalent among different working groups...
There are so many variables that must be taken into account in a given problem in the Social Sciences, Mosteller stated, that before the advent of the Mark III it was impossible to predict statistically the chances for marital success...
Perhaps the most dramatic account of student cooperation has come from Spain, where the 24-year-old Federal Union of Spanish Students has gone underground and practises resistance to the France regime...